Apple's Messages app can do far more than just blue and green speech bubbles plus a few photos and videos - it now also lets you add a whole range of colourful effects to messages. The problem is that ...

What's new in Messages? Apple has finally given us built-in formatting options for iMessage conversations. Now, you can easily bold, italicize, underline or strike-through your text right in the app.

I use my iPhone’s stock Messages app all day, every day, to communicate with my partner, friends, and family. As such, I’m always messing around with features like stickers, animated GIFs, and Apple ...

Apple added a new kind of effect in Messages in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that let you apply basic styling to selections, like bold or underline, and animate text with effects. These text ...

Apple's changes to iMessage in iOS 18 could introduce new text effects, which may include stylized text that could be sent to Android users. Users of iMessage will be familiar with the way the app ...

Apple plans to add a new text effects feature to the Messages app on iOS 18, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While it is already possible to send iMessages with bubble effects ...

Beyond these text effects, the rumor mill also suggests that iOS 18’s iMessage could leverage Apple’s growing AI capabilities in exciting ways. Imagine prompting iMessage to generate an image based on ...

A Threads post that I recently saw opened my eyes to a fun trick with Apple’s iOS 18 iMessage effects: You can make little emoji / ASCII-style animations with them. I lost the original post (if that ...

These are the hottest features coming in Messages. Watch our video or keep reading to see the best new Messages features after you upgrade to iOS 18. (You can find the new iPhone operating in Settings ...