Make special text effects on your iPhone by typing out certain phrases, like "Happy Birthday." You can manually add effects to any text you send by holding your finger on the send button. Your ...

Spruce up your texting with iMessage effects. Apple’s text message effects can make quite an impression. You can make congratulations more bombastic (to rejoice in someone’s finest moments). Or, you ...

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In iOS 18, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app, one being the ability to add neat text effects to your messages to make them more expressive. The new animated text effects can be ...

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Apple added a new kind of effect in Messages in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that let you apply basic styling to selections, like bold or underline, and animate text with effects. These text ...