Learn how to hide the Add to Calendar / Reminders / Notes buttons from the Messages app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Learn how to dramatically speed up photo sharing by instantly sending a smaller preview, with the high-quality version arriving soon after.

ChatGPT’s new Messages plugin can find details buried in old conversations and send replies through your Mac.

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Learn about all the new ways and tweaks introduced in iOS 27 that will improve your texting experience on iPhone or iPad.

Find out why you may not see the option to turn off text message forwarding for a Mac or iPad on your iPhone, and how to fix this issue.

Find out how to remove the audio or microphone button from the text field in the iOS 27 Messages app so you don’t trigger them accidentally.

Learn how to use the new Drawing tool to handwrite or draw something personal and send it to friends and family from your iPhone and iPad.

Per possible new policy, the UK threatens to jail tech execs like Apple's John Ternus if they fail to block the smutty stuff from kids' eyes.

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Learn what to do if your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Vision Pro automatically blurs nude photos and videos, even though you don’t want this.

Go through these quick tips if you see “An unknown error occurred,” or another message when signing into the Messages app on your Mac.

Follow these quick tips if you want to send photos and videos via Messages, but the photo picker doesn’t show up on your iPhone or iPad.

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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