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Send unlimited texts, photos, videos, documents, and more to any iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, or visionOS device with iMessage, or use it to send RCS, SMS, and MMS messages.\n\nFeatures\n\n• Send texts, photos, videos, audio messages, documents, stickers, Memoji, polls, and more to contacts using their phone number or Apple Account.\n• Send Messages via satellite* to stay connected with friends and family even when you are without cellular or Wi-Fi connection.\n• Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages.*\n• On-device spam detection filters out spam from your conversations list.\n• Opt-in to screen messages from unknown numbers.\n• Tapback with any emoji or sticker for a quick reply to express what you think about a message.\n• Add effects to your messages like animated text effects, full-screen effects, and bubble effects to bring your conversations to life.\n• Schedule a message to send at a specified time with Send Later.\n• Your name and photo, or even Memoji, can be shared with your friends.\n• Edit any message for up to 15 minutes after sending it. Recipients will be able to see a record of edits made to the message.\n• Unsend any message for up to 2 minutes after sending it.\n• Mark as unread when you don’t have time to respond but want to be sure to reply to the sender later.\n• Name a group and add a photo to personalize the group conversation.\n• Mentions let you direct a message to an individual in a group conversation.\n• Inline replies let you reply to a specific message and see all related messages in their own view.\n• Pin conversations to keep up to nine of your favorite message threads at the top of the list.\n• iMessage apps let you quickly share photos, recently played music, stickers, GIFs, Apple Cash*, and more right from Messages.\n• Start a Check In with a family member or friend to let them know when you’ve arrived at a destination or set up a Check In for a time duration.\n• Use Messages in iCloud to keep your entire message history updated and available on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, even when you set up a brand-new device.\n• SharePlay via Messages lets you share synchronized activities like movies, music, workouts, games and more while chatting with friends in Messages.\n• Shared with You shows content sent to you by friends in Messages conversations in a section in Photos, Safari, News*, Music*, Podcasts, or the TV app*\n• Collaboration lets you invite others to collaborate on a file via Messages and shares activity updates in the thread when someone makes an edit to a shared project.\n\nApple Watch Features\n\n• Quickly read and respond to incoming messages.\n• Use smart replies, dictation, audio messages, stickers, #images*, Memoji, polls, or the QWERTY keyboard (Apple Watch Series 7 or later models).\n• Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages.*\n• Start a Check In with a family member or friend to let them know when you’ve arrived at a destination or set up a Check In for a time duration.\n• Pin conversations to keep your favorite message threads at the top of the list.\n• Save photos, audio messages and videos from your messages.\n• Ask Siri to send a message to your contacts.\n• Respond to a specific message inline to keep conversations organized.\n• Send, receive, and request money with Apple Pay*.\n• Mute or delete conversations.\n\n* Not available in all regions.","facts":{"developer_id":284417353,"developer_url":null,"first_released":"2021-10-25T07:00:00Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"4.12","release_notes":"Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements","rating_current_version":4.06555,"rating_count_current_version":39067,"star_counts":null,"genres":["Social Networking"],"languages":["AR","CA","HR","CS","DA","NL","EN","FI","FR","DE","EL","HE","HI","HU","ID","IT","JA","KO","MS","NB","PL","PT","RO","RU","ZH","SK","ES","SV","TH","ZH","TR","UK","VI"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":null,"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-19T23:54:11.527Z","catalog_read_at":null,"reviews_checked_at":"2026-10-17T01:27:13.387Z","summary_written_at":"2026-10-12T12:21:02.328Z","placed_at":"2026-10-09T03:59:53.925Z","scored_at":"2026-10-20T19:48:13.908Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Messaging app for texts, photos, videos and documents over iMessage, RCS, SMS and MMS.","what_is":"Messages sends texts, photos, videos, documents and other content to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS devices using iMessage, or to other phones using RCS, SMS and MMS. 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