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Messages Now Offers Shared Conversation Backgrounds

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A potentially surprising and fun new feature in Messages in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 Tahoe is conversation backgrounds. To set one, tap the person or group icon […]

Mail on the iPhone Can Categorize Your Messages in iOS 18.2

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Apple slipped a significant new feature into Mail in iOS 18.2 that has nothing to do with Apple Intelligence: Categories. Like Gmail and other email apps, Mail can now automatically […]

FAQs about Apple’s Messages App and What Can Go Wrong When Using It

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Most of us rely on Messages every day to text with family, friends, and colleagues. Not surprisingly, we’ve fielded numerous questions surrounding common confusions with this popular app. We hope […]

Need to Back Up or Export a Messages Conversation? Try PDF or iMazing

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Occasionally, we hear from a client who needs to document a Messages conversation with timestamps, perhaps as part of a lawsuit. The only way to do that on an iPhone […]

Messages Not Being Delivered to Blue-Bubble Friends? Check Cellular Data

A worried woman sits in her car holding her phone, with a message on the screen that reads, Be there in 10 minutes, followed by a Not Delivered notification.

Here’s a tricky situation that threw one of our clients for a loop recently. Texts they sent in Messages via iMessage (indicated by blue bubbles) to their son, letting him […]

Pin Your Chats in Messages for Faster Access

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A new feature of Messages in both iOS 14 and macOS 11 Big Sur is the option to pin up to nine conversations at the top of the conversation list […]