20 Hidden iPhone Messages Features

macmost.com/e-2691 Here are some fun things to try in the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad. You can send messages with special effects, send special links, respond with a reaction instead of a new message, easily include GIFs or stickers, add subject lines, send audio recordings, and so much more.
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00:00 Intro
00:30 1. Bubble Effects
01:15 2. Invisible Ink
01:47 3. Screen Effects
02:17 4. Avoid URL Previews
02:54 5. Send URL Schemes
03:42 6. Quick Reactions
04:11 7. Use the Keyboard As a Trackpad
04:39 8. Subject Lines
05:11 9. Custom Ringtones or Vibrations
05:43 10. Drag Out Of Messages
06:23 11. Drag Into Messages
06:50 12. Filter Out Spam
07:26 13. Send an Audio Message
07:53 14. Replace Words With Emoji
08:31 15. Easily Include GIFs
08:55 16. Send Your Location
09:32 17. Turn Off Group Chat Alerts
09:51 18. Digital Touch
10:20 19. Play Games
11:04 20. Handwrite a Message (11m 4s)
11:25 More…
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[@onesyphorus]

3:43 our man teaching us how to dry text like a boss

[@tjmanou6422]

Thank you. Still waiting for a simple one time Schedule a message option. Way overdue

[@s7a2g65]

I greatly appreciate the simplicity of your particular style. Keep up the good work!

[@dennislyons3095]

Thanks Gary, I wondered how someone sent me some these. Now I know!

[@catnapper3923]

Great tips here, thank you! I particularly like the picture one (which I have always done in the reverse, which can be annoying) and the BLOCK MESSAGE one. On the phone side, silencing unknowns is the best feature yet invented. Thank you.

[@nicholaspaul2458]

Gary once again blown away with these great tips. My favourite is hold the space bar and using like a trackpad. Makes corrections sooo easy. Absolutely love it. Thanks!!

[@nedywest71]

Thank you :)

[@jimalix6270]

An amazing video, Gary! So many features that I never even guessed were available in Messages! Thanks!

[@davidcking7]

Gary you never fail to amaze! Wonderful tutorial today! Thanks!!

[@paulmay6249]

Always excellent info Gary!

[@keliblum6591]

Very useful, thank you 😊

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@bigwoz78]

Gary, you are awesome!!

[@ASTMA193]

Great video. Thank you.

[@carolinemyddelton580]

So much fun! A number of features I wasn't aware of and will be trying out now! Thanks, Gary

[@All-the-gear-no-idea-uk]

That is fantastic thanks for sharing it

[@BobShrader]

Very helpful!

[@PaulBeiser]

Thanks, another awesome set of fun and useful tips! Several in here I did not know about, and will use!

[@gracesuarez3154]

Amazing! I learned so much about an app I hadn’t really explored, even though I use it every day. Thank you!

[@sasha_nivar]

I knew most of this but there were a few new things! love it thank you

[@edrosiak]

Awesome… thanks….

[@usinebob]

Great video

[@vishnu-krishna108]

Wow I didn’t know so many features 🙏 thank you

[@hugomartinez3684]

Thanks, very helpful I just subscribed to your channel

[@wardausman2795]

Wow. Great video. Want to triple like this one! Just love your content!

[@supersonicsid]

Thats a good one Gary, i will be using that on my friends & family

[@franknicholasdale918]

Great tips you constantly reminds us how little we know the power of our iPhone, thank you

[@TheOilCoach_]

Wow some really cool things… some I knew and some I didn’t. I especially like the drag and drop picture option.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and fun video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@garyackers1469]

As a grand pa I’m going to have great fun with my grand daughter play draughts or chess …thank’s for the video Gary ..👍👍👍

[@michaelhill6453]

Great stuff, all those interesting features hidden under the hood.

[@javtimestwo]

Once again you have taught me a few things that I had no idea existed. Digital touch & handwritten messages by turning the phone to the side. I will be using those going forward. I appreciate the production quality in your videos and pace. Keep up the great work! You really should have at least 1M subscribers by now👏🏽

[@doyourbest7655]

So the custom ringtone for special people like family members, but can the setting be quiet for all others? That would be great for those who get so many messages that we sound like an arcade game. I hope it works that way.

[@icelandicwhitewater]

Still waiting for the schedule a message feature. Miss that from my Android days.

[@DavidEsp1]

“Shall I watch it? Nah!, been using Messages app for years” - OMG what? Especially that space-trackpad thing… (oh yes, works in other apps too)

[@norinemueller4588]

I have a iPhone 10 don’t have a lot of these functions guess it’s time for an upgrade lol thanks great tips

[@macmost]

iPhone X? You should be able to get all (most?) of this on that, providing you are using iOS 15.

[@vaniacastillo9600]

Thank you so much Gary for teaching us about all those cool tricks 🙏🏽! Any options to get Animojis in iPhones 8 and below?

[@macmost]

I think you have them, right? Just without face movements. Those require the true depth camera.

[@vaniacastillo9600]

@@macmost iPhone 8 has only plain emojis. No Animojis 🥺.

[@JenniChiodo]

Hi! Thank you for your video! The text features are cool but what words do you use for fireworks, heart and beam and the ones for screen? I have my display set as zoom and since the dynamic island is at the top on the 14 Pro it blocks me from switching to the screen effects. Thanks for your help!!

[@macmost]

I think Happy New Year gets you fireworks. Pew pew is lasers. Not sure if there is a word trigger for the hearts.

[@DennisMathias]

Gary! There was so much in there. I made a shortcut!

[@sundaynightdrunk]

I send Happy Birthday messages to people all the time using either the balloons or the confetti screen effect, and invariably I hear "how did you do that?" I taught my nephew that trick and he showed it to all of his friends as if it was his discovery. One lady said I "hacked her iPhone" because I did that. Hilarious.

[@Goomer]

Holy smokes

[@neildamato1]

Awesome content Gary thank you. In order to hide alerts in a group chat do all the people in that chat have to have an iPhone? I'm in a group chat and have "hide alerts" turned on but continue to get alerts. Thank you.

[@macmost]

Not sure, but it makes sense that if some have SMS instead of iMessage then it may not work the same way.

[@onesyphorus]

i wanna make a youtube edit called "Patrick falls in a trance" and he drinks water and ends up in one of your videos

[@Sam-vz7pf]

Hey garry, hope you will read this message because i'm so pissed of with mac because in windows by pressing control and scroll up or down we can zoom the content zoom in or out but in mac there is a option but it zoom(maginifine) the whole screen which i dint want if you have any solution for it please please reply.

[@NorthernJerseyRailroad]

Very helpful…other than saying gif with a hard “g” instead of pronouncing it “jif” :)

[@macmost]

As a guy named Gary I gotta go with GIF.

[@onesyphorus]

rOML I JUST REALISED PATRICK CC LOOKS LIKE A YOUNG YOU

[@NeilVitale]

Two things I like to do with Messages: 1) You can type your flight number and a pop-up will appear that shows the flight status. 2) You can send a message to your own number as a note or reminder.

[@mehmd1913]

How to do #2?

[@303Estates]

Wow... awesome job!! I learned a lot!Here is. question for you. My number one feature request would be to have "folders" to group various types of contacts into appropriate "folder" . Example, I have 24 tenants at one of my buildings. Would be great to click a folder and just see those tenants. Another folder might be my web design clients. Etc,,, Any way to do this? ;-)

[@macmost]

No, no way to do that. But you can customize the icon for your tenants to all look the same at least.

[@devramachandran4436]

You can “group” contacts

[@blindadvocate]

Hi I have only subscribed to your channel recently and enjoy your tips and tricks but I would like to point out you could be more inclusive to those of us who are blind. Or vision impaired, according the the WHO (world health organisation) there are over 30 million people world wide who are blind and over 300 million people worl wide who have a moderate to severe vision impairment so it makes great sense to try and include us. If you go into settings then accessability and turn voice over on as this is what people who are blind or vision impaired use to makke all apple devices accessible, when you show something on screen and do not verbalise what you are doing to showing we have no idea of what is going on so verbalise or turn voice over on would be of. Great help, many thanks for your time on. This matter and keep your video’s. coming Jeff

[@livelikekings8968]

If you simply type “I am at” and hit the space bar a prompt appears blow your message to send the location.

[@Greg-fg1rd]

👏🏻👍🏻🍕

[@annacoffee]

Very interesting and great fun. Just one thing - on my plan at least, I get charged extra for doing anything fancy with the messages so I just do straight texts (which is a shame)

[@macmost]

For the most part the "fancy" stuff is for iMessages (Apple to Apple) and iMessages is an Internet service, not SMS. So not only shouldn't you get charged extra, but your carrier doesn't even know you are sending messages.

[@deniselupinacci8564]

Hoping you can help...my husband's iPhone 12 cannot receive Verification Code Texts from our bank. My phone can. We both have the same version phone and the same carrier (shared plan). I have checked the settings a hundred times and cannot figure out any reason. Tried turning off/on Airplane Mode, re-starting his phone, software is up-to-date. Thanks so much!

[@macmost]

As issue with the phone number? Can he receive other texts (not iMessage, but SMS)? Maybe he has SMS turned off? Check with your carrier too as SMS may be disabled there.

[@deniselupinacci8564]

@@macmost thank you so much for your reply. I've been holding off forever calling Verizon. I just called them, and they told me that SMS had been turned off by them (Verizon) since 2019. LOL! Yes, he was able to receive/send only to iPhones, not androids. Thanks again! Very much appreciated.

[@hoodacoodawooda8893]

@@deniselupinacci8564 Verizon , I’ll no longer use them . lil fella from the store took my hubbys info . His Apple. I’d and p/w bc they asked for it and hubby innocently didn’t know he shouldn’t have given it out. again , nor should they have asked for it .Hubs don’t look at his stuff like I do and evaluate things as often. but when he did he started seeing charges on his bank account from iTunes and it’s just a big fat mess at this point . 🤦🏻‍♀️!!!

[@bonao2516]

Hi Gary can you help me how to record a call and receive in iPhone thanks felix

[@macmost]

There's no good way to do that. I think you need to use special calling services to do it, and then take into account various local laws and such.

[@bonao2516]

@@macmost thanks Gary

[@devramachandran4436]

Drag and drop on iPhone is almost too much

[@littleredridinghood5622]

When I send a picture in a text from my iPhone 11 to my wife iPhone 11 the picture is blurry ... When I send her a picture I have to email it ...

[@hoodacoodawooda8893]

That’s interesting. is it just your wife or anyone u send a pix to. If u have not sent to anyone else with an iPhone , I’d do so. Then also an android user . see what it does and go from their.

[@johncipolla8335]

I would like them to stop saving my texts. don't need them for 30 days. bTW I was just shipped my new iPhone 13 pro max in alpine green. my previous phone was the 8.

[@macmost]

30 days, 1 year or forever are the only options. If 30 days isn't short enough, and you really want to spend time on this, then just delete each message manually as you want. There's no other option.

[@johncipolla8335]

@@macmost nothing seems to be easy with apple. they want us to do it their way. I have to contact support my phone for messages is not verifying my telephone number

[@macmost]

@@johncipolla8335 Not sure what you are saying here. What are you being forced to do “the Apple way?l Contacting support? Would you rather they didn’t offer support?

[@hoodacoodawooda8893]

@@macmost i wouldn’t know what to do w/o 🍎 support . honestly without it I think the iPhone sales wouldn’t be no where near what they are. 🍎 support gets me through the stages of wanting to toss my iPhone over a bridge and buy android. 🍎 supports my bff . Ha ! Thanks for all ur videos btw…. I just found you today and Ive been iPhone since the beginning . i can’t understand why I’ve not ran upon ur videos already 🤷‍♀️ Very informative and explaining in a way i can understand.

[@meeluanistyn1644]

A pity most of my friends use WhatsApp so I have to use it too!

[@callmelongleggz3616]

some of these tricks are old but I appreciate you taking the time out for showing the ones that had no idea about the iPhone hacks 🙏🏾 much love fam 🏌🏾‍♂️🥶