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iPhone

Messages

Text with more texture.

Text like you talk.

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When you start a text message conversation in Messages, you do exactly that: start a conversation. Messages displays back-and-forth texts as speech bubbles in a list — just like you’d see in an instant messaging session. That makes it easy to pick up where you left off, or scroll up and down to see who said what. And you can delete whole conversations or individual texts with a swipe and a tap.

Take suggestions while you type.

The intelligent iPhone keyboard lets you text fast and accurately. That’s because it predicts and suggests words as you type. So all you do is tap away. The more you use the iPhone keyboard, the more you’ll wonder how you ever texted without it.

More than words.

With Messages on iPhone, you can text what you see and hear. If you see something worth sharing, take a photo or shoot some video, then send it via MMS to anyone. Or send photos and video you already have on your iPhone. Even send audio recordings from Voice Memos, contact information from Contacts, and locations from Maps.