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Spruce up your texting with iMessage effects. With Apple’s text message effects, you can make quite an impression. You can make congratulations more bombastic (to rejoice in someone’s finest moments).

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

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. These text ...

You've long been able to add birthday balloons and other effects to Messages, but in iOS 18 your very words can shake, rattle, and explode. Every year, Apple finds something new to add to Messages, ...