What better way to ring in the New Year or celebrate a holiday than by sending fireworks on your iPhone? With the Messages app, you can send iMessage effects along with your text. These iPhone texting effects include balloons, confetti, and fireworks. Below, we'll cover how to send fireworks on iPhone.
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How to Review Large Attachments on iPhone & Bulk Delete Them
By Conner Carey
How to Send & Request Money Using Apple Pay
By Belinda Sanmiguel
View the Edit History of a Text Message on iPhone
By Rhett Intriago
How to See All Photos Sent in Messages & All Text Attachments
By Sarah Kingsbury
Tired of scrolling through Messages threads looking for photos and links friends and family have sent you? Find them the easy way; here's how!
How to Delete Attachments but Not Conversations in Messages
By Sarah Kingsbury
How to Save Photos Captured Via Messages Camera (or Not)
By Olena Kagui
What Does Notifications Silenced Mean?
By Rachel Needell
Use Emergency Bypass on iPhone to Sidestep Focus Modes
By Conner Carey
Did you know you can disable Do Not Disturb for as many contacts as you want? Here's how to bypass Do Not Disturb with Emergency Bypass, so emergency bypass contacts on your iPhone can call, text, or both.
How to Create a Contact Group on iPhone—the Easy Way!
By Becca Ludlum
Making iPhone contact groups allows you to quickly send a message or email to multiple people. If you want to create a contact group for text messages, you can do that in the iPhone Messages app. We'll teach you how to add groups on your iPhone so you can quickly send group texts and emails.
How to Make a Sticker on iPhone & Where You Can Use Them
By Emma Chase
How Do You Know If Someone Read Your Text on iPhone?
By Hallei Halter
Copy & Paste from Text Messages on iPhone (iOS 26)
By Rhett Intriago
How to Make a Group Text on iPhone
By Conner Carey
How to Stop Sharing Location Without Them Knowing
By Rhett Intriago
Schedule Messages to Send Later on Your iPhone
By Rhett Intriago
The Fastest Way to Type Numbers on an iPhone
By Leanne Hays
It would be convenient if Apple added a numbers row to the standard iPhone keyboard, but it hasn't happened yet. If you want an iPhone keyboard with numbers, here's an iPhone texting trick: how to access iOS keyboard symbols and numbers without leaving the standard keyboard.
How to Mark iMessage as Unread on iPhone & iPad
By Olena Kagui
Why do you need to learn how to mark a text as unread? I mark a text as unread when I read it but don’t have time to answer. If I leave it marked as read, chances are I’ll forget to answer later. Here's how to mark an iMessage as unread on your iPhone!
How to Create Custom Photo Stickers on iPhone
By Rachel Needell
The Custom Photo Stickers is a fan-favorite iPhone feature. With iOS 16, we gained the ability to remove an image from the background of a photo. This takes that concept, streamlines it, and then gives us a bunch of new and fun ways to customize it. Here's how to make a sticker from a photo on iPhone.
