Send and receive messages – Apple iPhone iOS 8.1 User Manual
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Chapter 9
Messages
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Send and receive messages
Send a photo or video.
Send a photo or video.
Add your voice to
the conversation.
Add your voice to
the conversation.
Get info, make a
voice or FaceTime
call, share your
location, or mute
notifications.
Get info, make a
voice or FaceTime
call, share your
location, or mute
notifications.
Blue indicates
an iMessage
conversation.
Blue indicates
an iMessage
conversation.
Start a conversation. Tap
, then enter a phone number or email address, or tap
, then
choose a contact. You can also start a conversation by tapping a phone number in Contacts,
Calendar, or Safari, or from a recent or favorite contact in the multitasking screen.
An alert badge
appears if a message can’t be sent. Tap the alert in a conversation to try
sending the message again. Double-tap to send the message as an SMS text message.
Resume a conversation. Tap the conversation in the Messages list.
Use picture characters. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard,
then tap Emoji to make that keyboard available. When you type a message, tap
to change to
the Emoji keyboard. See
on page 168.
Tap to Talk. Touch and hold
to record an audio message, then swipe up to send it. To delete it,
swipe left.
To save space, Tap to Talk audio messages that you receive are deleted automatically two
minutes after you listen to them, unless you tap Keep. To keep them automatically, go to
Settings > Messages > Expire (under Audio Messages), then tap Never.
Raise iPhone to listen or reply to an audio message. Raise iPhone to your ear, as if you were
talking on the phone, to play incoming audio messages automatically. Raise iPhone to your ear
Audio Messages.
See what time a message was sent or received. Drag any bubble to the left.
See a person’s contact info. In a conversation, tap Details, then tap
. Tap the info items to
perform actions, such as making a voice or FaceTime call.
Send messages to a group (iMessage and MMS). Tap
, then enter multiple recipients. With
MMS, group messaging must also be turned on in Settings > Messages, and replies are sent only
to you—they aren’t copied to the other people in the group.