Learn how to make FaceTime calls and send iMessages to iPhones, iPads, and Macs that have the same Apple Account.

Apple Watch texting is a nightmare. Luckily, you can enter your own canned messages to make it much more bearable.

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Learn how to have your iPhone SMS texts, MMS, RCS, and iMessages show up inside the Messages app on your Mac.

If you set a custom background for a chat, you’ll never confuse it for another one. Learn how to set a background in Messages on iPhone.

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Go through these quick tips if you see the “Syncing with iCloud Paused” label at the top of the iOS 26 Messages app on your iPhone or iPad.

Go through these tips if SMS, MMS, and RCS texts from your iPhone running iOS 26 are not forwarding to your Mac running macOS Tahoe.

Follow these tips if you can’t change the iMessage background on iPhone in iOS 26 or if one added by a friend doesn’t appear on your device.

Learn how to view all photos and videos sent and received in an iMessage conversation on your iPhone or iPad in iOS 26.

Meta is bringing message translations to WhatsApp with support for 19 languages, borrowing a feature from Apple’s Messages app.

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Learn how to delete old texts from your iCloud account on iPhone, iPad, or Mac to clean up the Messages app and free up online storage space.

Find out what to do if you’re missing incoming SMS text alerts from new or unknown senders on your iPhone running iOS 26.

Learn how to select and copy a specific part of a text message in the Apple Messages app, WhatsApp, and Telegram on your iPhone.

Apple provides new APIs to third-party developers in the European Union that allow for cellular phone calls and SMS/MMS/RCS messaging in apps.

Learn how to use live translation in iOS 26 Messages app to translate messages in a foreign language into English or another language.

iOS 26 will give CarPlay a new look and make it more functional with support for widgets and Live Activities.

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The new TypeMillennium jailbreak tweak provides a system-wide notification to let you know when someone starts typing iMessages to you.

Easily gather feedback and opinions from friends and family using the new polls feature in iMessage, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Apple is binging Tapbacks to Messages on CarPlay, so now you can react to chats with emoji while driving because what could possibly go wrong?

Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch.

Apple's iOS 26 software could enhance the iPhone's built-in Messages app with new capabilities, including polls and automatic translation.