Since the era of feature phones, text messages are accompanied by the call function in the mobile phone, is a necessary function of the mobile phone, but now, the mobile phone text message has been gradually replaced by other social software, and Apple has not because the text message is no longer favored by users, and give up the development of the maintenance of the text message, so far, the iPhone text message has reached the convenience and power that you can not imagine, it is iMessage.
There is still a very big difference between iMessage and SMS, as a user, his biggest difference is that it is free and one is not charged, but Apple's iMessage seems to be combined with SMS, and the average user really doesn't know how to distinguish it.
Today, iMessage can be said to be a complete replacement for penguins, you may say that I am boasting, so please read it and talk about it.
1. Turn on the iMessage function
1. Open [Settings]/[Messages], turn on iMessage, and the recipient can choose your phone number or your Apple ID, which is very convenient.
2. After setting up, you can send iMessage, the way to send is to send SMS, click on the message, enter the contact, enter the content, and click send.
2. The difference between paid and free
Seeing this, someone will start spraying indiscriminately, isn't this the SMS function of the mobile phone?
1. Open the SMS, enter the recipient, and then send the message, which I send to different two people here.
2. Pay attention to the color of the bubbles in the dialog box, whether one is blue and the other is green?
3. iPhone can automatically distinguish whether it is free or not, between Apple users, here is not only iPhone, all devices in the Apple ecosystem support iMessage, the dialogue bubble between them is blue, free, you send it to recipients outside the Apple ecosystem, the dialogue bubble is green, it is a text message instead of iMessage, so it is charged.
3. Personalized gameplay of iMessage
Well, sending iMessages in the Apple ecosystem is completely free, and there are a lot of special effects and gameplay, which Android only has a share of.
1. Text effects
After entering the text, we don't click send first, press and hold the send arrow, and the special effect selection page will pop up.
The effects here are "Shock", "Zoom In", "Zoom Out" and "Invisible Ink", and you can preview the corresponding effects by moving your finger over them.
2. Full-screen special effects
In addition to adding special effects to the sent content, you can also add special effects on the full screen, don't click send the input content first, press and hold the send arrow, the add special effects page appears, and then click the "page" at the top to enter the full-screen special effects selection page.
On this page, you can swipe left and right to switch back and forth between various special effects, select the full-screen special effects, and you can send it, let's see the effect.
The above effects are not only useful for text, but also when sending pictures, such as sending an image with the "invisible ink" effect, and after the other party receives it, you have to click on the image with your finger to show the image.
4. Send audio
When using WeChat or other social software to send voice, the other party can only click to play, stop, and there is no progress bar, but iMessage makes up for this defect, when the other party plays the voice, you can pull the progress bar like controlling music playback, and play the progress at will.
1. Open the message, ready to send a voice to the other party, click "+" on the left side of the text input box, and select voice in the menu.
2. Then start recording audio, no need to hold down or click certain buttons, you can send it after recording.
3. Click on the voice, you can use the mobile phone to press and hold the voice waveform, and slide back and forth to control the playback progress.
5. Personality interaction
For example, I sent a picture and it has been sent to the other party, I need to tell the other party that this picture is very good, then I can add a special effect to the picture again, and the other party will receive it.
1. Send a picture to a friend with iMessage, and the other party will receive it soon.
2. I long press the picture or text content that has been sent again, and you can add some interaction in the menu, I click the "thumbs-up" icon here to tell my friends that this picture is very good, and the other party will also receive a reminder of my like.
Of course, no matter when it was sent, you can add interactive effects to the content of the conversation and the other person will receive it again, which no other app can do.
【Conclusion】There are many more functions and ways to play iMessage, because of the limited space, so other advanced gameplay methods will be shared with you in the next issue.