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These 5 hidden iMessage features change the way I use my iPhone
Feb 19, 2025
Summary
If you're an iPhone user, then there's a high probability that you're also an iMessage user.
For as mainstream as iMessage is, it offers a number of useful features that hardly anyone utilizes.
Here are some of the very best, lesser-known, and underappreciated features available within Apple's default messaging service.
Apple's iMessage texting service is ubiquitous within North America. With the iPhone's massive market share across both the US and Canada, the vast majority of domestic smartphone users utilize iMessage in at least some capacity.
Since initially releasing iMessage back in 2011, Apple has slowly but steadily been introducing new features and functionalities into its proprietary messenger application, to varying levels of success and user adoption levels.
Some of these additions -- including in-line replies, emoji reactions, and group chat naming -- have taken off. Others, however, are lesser-known and underappreciated. Here are some of the most useful hidden features you'll find within the modern Message experience.
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