By updating iOS to version 14, Apple offers its Messaging application many new features. Find out everything you need to know to make the most of it now.
Apple has packed full of new features into Messages. The iOS messaging application is indeed gaining some welcome new features such as the ability to pin your most important conversations.
But iPhone owners who use iOS messaging to have group conversations through iMessage are best served. This year, Messages sees the functioning of multi-party conversations improve, in particular with the possibility of mentioning a participant, or of replying to a message by quoting him. Messages become more practical and benefit from better readability. Here is everything you need to know about the new features introduced in Messages in iOS 14.
1. Pin your conversations
With iOS 14, quickly accessing your most important conversations just got a lot easier. The latest update of the iPhone operating system indeed integrates the ability to pin conversations at the top of the application interface.
To do this, swipe right on a conversation to pin. Press the pushpin icon, and your conversation should then be at the top of the screen, with the thumbnail of your interlocutor as an illustration, or in the case of a group chat, the image assigned to the conversation. conversation as well as the miniature avatar of the author of the last message received. When a message received in a pinned conversation has not been opened, it will appear in a bubble above the sender’s avatar.
In total, you will be able to pin a maximum of 9 conversations to the top of the iOS messaging window. To detach a pinned conversation, it’s easy, tap and hold the conversation’s avatar and drag it to the list of other conversations in Message.
2. Reply to a message in a group conversation.
Group conversations can quickly become chaotic to the point where you don’t know who is responding to what. In iOS 14, it is now possible to reply to a particular message, by quoting it. To do this, tap and hold an answer and, in the options that appear, tap Answer. The conversation screen will then darken, showing only the message you are about to reply to.
Once the response is sent, the original message is assigned a link to expand to display all associated responses, while the response appears with a grayed-out reference to the original message.
3. Identify a party in a conversation
In the same way that it is possible to reply to a particular message in a conversation, Messages now offers the possibility of identifying a particular interlocutor. To do this, all you have to do is enter the first letters of their name (that of their contact card), then when it becomes gray, tap on it to display the tooltip of their contact card. Tap it to add the mention, which turns blue, to your message.
Only the person mentioned will then receive a notification indicating that a message intended for them has been sent in the conversation.
4. Look for an emoji
Putting an emoji into a conversation should be a lot easier than usual. In the iOS 14 keyboard, within conversations, it is now possible to search for an emoji directly by entering a keyword in the search engine whereas previously it was necessary to cross your fingers hoping that entering a keyword in the text field suggests the emoji you are looking for.
5. Better filter messages from unknown senders
The option to filter messages from strangers is now clearer in iOS 14. To activate it, go to Settings, then in the Messages menu where you will find the Filter unknown senders option.
Then return to the Messages app. At the top left, return to the previous Filters menu. Now, the filtering system allows you to access All messages, conversations from Known Senders, or access conversations from Unknown Senders.