When you receive a text message, you sometimes see special effects, like balloons floating or fireworks exploding across your screen. These special effects can be triggered by using specific words or ...

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.

In iOS 17, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app to make communicating with other Apple users more creative and fun. One such feature is the ability to add effects to your stickers.

Big: Makes the selected words or emoji bigger for a second before returning them to their normal size. Small: Makes words smaller for a bit. Shake: Gives selected text a quick jiggle. Nod: Moves text ...

Apple's Messages app now make stickers out of your own photos, generate animated stickers from Live photos, and add special effects to your stickers. You've long been able to add stickers to the texts ...

My 20-year-old didn’t like that when they typed “excited” in a text message on their iPhone, iOS automatically seemed to apply a Ripple effect, part of the set of somewhat pointless Text Effects that ...