{"id":125219,"date":"2022-05-28T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/11\/30\/how-to-send-balloons-hearts-and-other-flair-in-imessage?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2022-05-28T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:35:00","slug":"how-to-send-balloons-hearts-and-other-flair-in-imessage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/28\/how-to-send-balloons-hearts-and-other-flair-in-imessage\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send balloons, hearts, and other flair in iMessage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Give your text and emoji-based messages a bit of life, by sending special effects to others in the iMessage<\/a> conversation. <\/p>\n

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Sometimes, sending a message from your iPhone<\/a> to others can seem a bit pedestrian. A line of text doesn’t really elicit emotion unless it’s a meaningful message, unless you count the use of emojis and copious use of capitalized letters and punctuation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you’re eager to show that you’re excited or that you love someone tremendously, you can do a lot better than sending plain old text. A FaceTime<\/a> call certainly allows you to be more expressive, but you may not be in a situation where you can actually place it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Handily, Apple has built-in a variety of effects that you can apply to your iMessage conversations with others, and you can take advantage of them whenever you want. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Make sure it’s iMessage<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Bear in mind that the effects will only really be visible to other participants in a Messages conversation if they are also using iOS. If they’re on Android or using an older-style cellphone, the messages won’t be seen at all. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The easiest way to tell is to simply check the color of speech bubbles in the conversation. If they are green, the conversation is over SMS or MMS. If they are blue, then it’s an iMessage conversation, and you can go wild with effects. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Android users cannot experience the animations, change is afoot regarding reactions. Google is slowly updating Google Messages to enable iMessage reaction support<\/a>, bringing part of the iMessage experience to Android. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though it’s not the same thing as these effects and animations, it is at least a bit of cross-platform progress. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bubble Effects<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Bubble effects affect the speech bubble affecting the next message you send. There are a few effects available:\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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