Use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Stay connected to the conversations that affair the most. Transport texts, photos, videos, and more. So personalize your messages with animated furnishings, pin your important conversations, send inline replies, and add mentions.

Transport a message

  1. Open up Messages.
  2. Tap the Compose button to start a new message. Or go to an existing conversation.
  3. Type your bulletin, then tap the Send button send message button.

With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and later, you can also use inline replies and mentions to phone call attending to specific messages and people within the letters.

Answer from the Lock Screen

  1. From the Lock Screen, impact and hold the notification that you want to reply to. Or depending on your device, you might need to swipe left over the notification and tap View.*
  2. Blazon your message.
  3. Tap the Send button send message button.

If you lot accept an iPhone X or afterwards, or an iPad with Face ID, and can't respond to a message from the Lock Screen, go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode, and turn on Reply with Bulletin. If you have an iPhone SE (second generation), iPhone eight or earlier, or an iPad, go to Settings > Affect ID & Passcode > Allow Admission When Locked, and turn on Reply with Bulletin.

* Touch and hold is bachelor on most devices that support iOS 13 and later, or iPadOS. On iPhone SE (2nd generation), y'all'll need to swipe left on the notification, then tap View to reply to a bulletin from the Lock Screen.

Utilize Shared with You lot

With iOS 15 and iPadOS xv, content that'due south shared with yous in the Messages app is automatically organized in a Shared with You section in the corresponding app. Shared with You works with Photos, Safari, News, Music, Podcasts, and the Apple tree TV app.

Content that's shared with you is labeled in the respective app, so y'all can meet who shared the content with y'all. With a simple tap on the name, you tin can easily reply to the share and continue the chat in Messages.

To disable Automatic Sharing or a certain app from using Shared with Yous, go to Settings > Letters > Shared with You, and turn off Automatic Sharing or the app.

Learn more about finding and sharing content with Shared with You.

iPhone showing how to pin a message by swiping left over the message.

Pin important conversations

With Messages in iOS 14 and iPadOS fourteen and later, you can pin upward to nine conversations. When you pin a conversation information technology shows upwardly at the top of the Messages app, and then it's easy to get to.

To pin a conversation, open up Messages, then swipe right over the chat. Or follow these steps:

  1. Open Messages, and then tap Edit or the More button .
  2. Tap Edit Pins , then tap the Pin button .
  3. Tap Washed.

iPhone showing how to change your name or photo in Messages.

Change your proper noun and photo

  1. Open Letters and tap Edit in the upper-left corner.
  2. Tap Edit Name and Photo Tap Edit Name and Photo.
  3. Edit your name. Or tap the epitome circumvolve to choose an paradigm, photo, emoji, or Memoji.
  4. Tap Washed.

Your name and photo can be shared with anyone using iMessage, but you lot'll exist asked to confirm that you lot want to share with someone when sending or replying to a new message. Y'all tin can as well plow sharing on and off. Just complete steps 1-2, and plow Name and Photo Sharing on or off.

Delete a bulletin or conversation

When yous delete a message or conversation, you can't go it dorsum. So make sure that you salvage of import information from your messages.

To delete a unmarried message:

  1. Within a chat, impact and hold the message bubble to open an options carte du jour.
  2. Tap More .
  3. Tap the Trash button , and so tap Delete Message.

To delete a conversation:

  1. Affect and hold the conversation to open an options menu.
  2. Tap Delete .
  3. Tap Delete over again to confirm.

As long as the conversation isn't pinned, you lot tin can also swipe left over the conversation, tap Delete, and so tap Delete once again to ostend. To delete more than than one chat, open up Messages and tap Edit in the upper-left corner. Tap Select Messages, so tap the circle side by side to the conversations and tap Delete in the lesser-right corner.

To go along your letters for a sure amount of time, go to Settings, tap Letters, then tap Keep Messages. And then select how long you want to proceed your letters.

iPhone showing how to turn on Hide Alerts by swiping left over a message.

  1. Open Letters.
  2. Swipe left over the chat that you want to mute.
  3. Tap the Alerts push .

When Hide Alerts is on, the Alerts button appears next to the conversation. This stops notifications simply for that conversation, not your device. You'll still receive all other letters and encounter notifications for them on your Lock Screen.

Find attachments from a conversation

  1. Open the message.
  2. Tap the name of the contact at the top of the message. If you're using iOS xiv or earlier, or iPadOS, tap the Info button .
  3. You'll see Photos and Links. Bear upon and agree an image or attachment to show options like Save, Re-create, Share, and Delete.

iPhone showing how to send and share your location in Messages.

Send and share your location

  1. Tap the name of the contact at the peak of the chat. If you're using iOS 14 or before, or iPadOS, tap the Info button .
  2. Tap Send My Current Location. Your recipient volition see your location on the map. Or tap Share My Location. So cull the length of fourth dimension that you want to share your location.

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