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Calling & Texting

The new emoji in Unicode 16.0
Jan 16, 2025

Get ready to upgrade your emoji game! Thanks to the Unicode 16.0 update, a new wave of fun and expressive characters is coming to your iPhone. While the last emoji refresh was nearly a year ago, iOS 1 ...

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Dec 19, 2024

Apple's Messages app has long had visual effects you could apply manually after long-pressing the send button, and there are even hidden keywords you could use to trigger full-screen effects automatic ...

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Dec 11, 2024

Since 2020, you've been free to set your preferred web browser and email app as the default on your iPhone or iPad. Now, four years later, Apple is expanding this flexibility in the U.S., allowing eve ...

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Oct 28, 2024

Apple's Messages app already has a ton of great features, from audio message transcriptions to message editing and screen effect triggers. But some important new features and changes are included in t ...

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Oct 28, 2024

Recording phone calls has always been tricky due to legal, ethical, and technical considerations. With iOS 18.1, Apple brings your iPhone a native call recording feature that simplifies this process w ...

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Sep 27, 2024

The updated Messages app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac has some really cool new features, but the one you may end up using the most is something you're already familiar with: Tapbacks. With iOS 18, iPadOS ...

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Sep 27, 2024

At first glance, Apple's Messages app has always seemed pretty basic when it comes to text formatting options. However, there were and still are hidden ways to format text in your messages. But Apple' ...

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Sep 27, 2024

You could already schedule an email to send on a specific day and time in Apple's Mail app, but that functionality is now also available in the Messages app. What's even better is that scheduled messa ...

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Sep 27, 2024

Things just got a lot better in your iPhone's Messages app, and the most significant change lets you text Android users with iMessage-like features such as typing indicators, read receipts, large file ...

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Sep 27, 2024

The updated Messages app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS has creative new ways for you to format and send messages, from standard text formatting to fun text effects. But Apple also includes another way to ...