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3 min readFeb 12, 2019

Messaging is something that everyone uses to connect to their friends and family. Hence it becomes very important to have access to a good messaging application. You might have used a much different messaging application but the one that is considered the best out of the rest is “iMessage”. It is considered the best messaging application. It is easy to use and has many features that enable you to do many things in the messaging application.

iMessage caters to all the demographics and is developed to be easy to use for the elderly, which is engaging and keeping the young entertained with all the features and add-ons. You can even download more features and emojis to use.

There are many ways to personalize your message. You can add effects to the message like the slam and gentle. You can also draw and send that as a message using digital touch. If you desire to send pictures or videos, then you can do that too using the options present in the application. You can even personalize the pictures of videos using the digital touch option and send a message or drawing which will be on the picture or video. You can even put effects in place of drawing or scribbles.

You only have options to send the message as invisible ink which enables you to send messages which will not be seen until and unless the receiver scratches the message revealing the content.

If you are busy and don’t want to constantly get alerts. Then you also have an option to hide alerts. You can go to the details option and toggle the hide alerts bar ON and OFF. Below the hide alert option, you can also find the “Send Read Receipts”. You can also switch it OFF or switch it ON according to your preference.

You even have the option to play turn-based games with your friends. You have many options in the gaming category and can choose whichever you prefer.

You can also share your current location with someone. You can continuously keep sending your updated location to someone indefinitely or for an hour or a day. This option makes it easy to find someone or pinpoint someone’s locations.

You also have the option to send a quick reply. You need to long press on the message and then swipe up to see the list of quick messages. You can then choose the one to use to respond to the message. It generates quick replies according to the message.

Conclusion

Even though many of the features are not exclusive to iMessage what makes it great is that you are getting all the features in one place. This makes the application easy to use and there is not much of a hassle to install it either. Combining all the features and the ability to access data from other application makes it a messaging application which can handle a lot of different user needs.

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