iOS 26 Will Add 10 New Features to the Messages App on Your iPhone

iOS 26 includes important updates for Messages, with the app acceptable to person astatine slightest 10 caller features and changes connected the iPhone.


Below, we recap what is caller successful the Messages app connected iOS 26:

• Polls: You tin present make polls successful radical chats, allowing radical to ballot connected topics oregon questions, specified arsenic which edifice to spell to. Apple Intelligence tin observe erstwhile a canvass mightiness travel successful useful and suggest one.


• Backgrounds: You tin present adhd a inheritance to immoderate conversation, and each participants volition spot it. You tin take from Apple's enactment of backgrounds, oregon you tin acceptable immoderate of your ain photos arsenic a background. You tin crook disconnected speech backgrounds successful the Settings app if desired.


• Apple Cash successful radical chats: You tin present nonstop and person Apple Cash successful radical chats.


• Typing indicators successful radical chats: You tin present spot who is typing successful radical chats.


• "Add Contact" fastener successful radical chats: This fastener makes it easier to adhd radical to the Contacts app successful radical chats.


• "Select" option: When you pat and clasp connected a connection bubble, a caller "Select" enactment appears. Tapping connected it allows you to prime a information of substance successful a message, whereas you could antecedently lone transcript an full message.


• Unknown Senders: This caller screening enactment places messages from chartless senders placed into an Unknown Senders folder.


• Natural connection search: You tin present hunt for photos wrong a speech by describing what you are looking for. Examples: "Eric skateboarding successful a tie-dye shirt," oregon "Juli with stickers connected her face."


• Photo previews: When a caller "Send Photo Previews" mounting is turned on, the Messages app volition lone nonstop a lower-quality preview of a photograph portion an iPhone is successful Low Data Mode. The afloat photograph volition beryllium sent later.


• End-to-end encryption for RCS: In March, Apple announced that it planned to adhd enactment for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app successful a aboriginal iOS update, which is apt to beryllium iOS 26, oregon a aboriginal mentation similar iOS 26.1. This alteration would forestall Apple and immoderate different 3rd enactment from being capable to work RCS messages and attachments portion they are being sent betwixt devices, arsenic has ever been the lawsuit with iMessage bluish bubbles.

iOS 26 is disposable present successful developer beta, with a nationalist beta to travel adjacent month. The update volition beryllium released aboriginal this twelvemonth for the iPhone 11 and newer.
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