Apple's iOS 17 brings a ton of new and fun features to the system apps. For instance, the Phone app gets Contact Posters, which lets you set full-screen photos for the caller screen. It's immersive ...

A fun feature in iOS 17 lets users transform their photos into stickers and conveniently share them through iMessage. Here's how to get started. In iOS 17, iMessage got a significant update with ...

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).

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 or ...

In iOS 17, Apple not only added several new Messages features, but also tweaked the interface design of the Messages app to give it a cleaner look. This means that the way you navigate and manage some ...

One of the best features available with iOS 16 is the ability of iPhone users to lift a subject from an image and remove the background. This function works with Photos, Screenshots, Quick Lock, ...

Years ago, when the iMessage Store first debuted, I covered the best sticker packs every week in MacStories Weekly, our Club MacStories newsletter. It wasn’t long before I had more sticker packs than ...