Localized Movie info in iMessage for iOS | How-To

Jason Yeaman
Mobile⌘Tech News
Published in
2 min readJan 3, 2017

Conversations in iMessage for iOS about current films yields localized data presentations

This might be old news, but I realized today that…like music bands in Music for iOS…conversations about movies in iMessage will give you a link to localized movie times:

iMessage screen capture of iMessages

Spelling is the important part

How-To

How do you get your iDevice to present this data and then consume the goodness it provides? It’s only a two-step process, but the first step can be difficult:

  1. Spell the movie correctly
  2. Tap on the correctly spelled movie link

Once you complete this process you will be rewarded with a transparent overlay that looks similar to this:

Will smiff

A pretty good movie!

Originally published at imthemobile.guru.

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Jason Yeaman
Mobile⌘Tech News

I cover topics in the mobile space: trends, strategy, business, legislation, philosophy and culture of Mobile technology.