Make special text effects on your iPhone by typing out certain phrases, like "Happy Birthday." You can manually add effects to any text you send by holding your finger on the send button.

When you receive a text message, you sometimes see special effects, like balloons floating or fireworks exploding across your screen. These special effects can be triggered by using specific words ...

Apple's iOS 18 software update brought plenty of new features, including to the Messages app. The addition of cool new text effects gives iPhone owners new ways to communicate and they're ...

For starters, you can now send any emoji as a message tapback. Gone are the days of being limited to a handful of tapback reactions. In iOS 18, you can send a tapback with the eyes-looking emoji ...

Apple added a new kind of effect in Messages in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that let you apply basic styling to selections, like bold or underline, and animate text with effects.

Text effects range from bolding your text or making the letters explode across the message. You can also use these effects on a single word or phrase in a message to emphasize what you're saying.

Google Messages, the popular messaging app that ... it appears that Google is working to improve this feature with special effects. These camera effects are expected to add a new dimension to ...