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Messages User Guide

• Welcome
• What’s new
• Set up Messages
  • Set up Messages on Mac
  • Get SMS, MMS, and RCS texts from iPhone
  • Share your name and photo
• Send messages
  • Send messages
  • Messages for Business
  • Collaborate using Messages
  • Send later
  • Unsend or edit a message
  • Forward a message or attachment
  • Send an inline reply
  • Mention a person
  • React with Tapbacks
  • Turn read receipts on or off
  • Send stickers
  • Send and save GIFs
  • Send photos and videos
  • Send an audio message
  • Add full-screen and bubble effects
  • Format and animate text
  • Share your location
  • Make calls
• View content shared with you
  • Keep track of your shared content
  • View photos, videos, and audio
  • View animation
  • View a Check In notification
  • Request or view someone’s location
  • Translate text in a conversation
  • Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
  • Share screens
• Keep track of your conversations
  • Search for a conversation
  • Pin a conversation
  • Poll people in a conversation
  • Catch up on messages you missed
  • Mark a conversation as unread
  • Manage a group conversation
  • Delete messages and conversations
  • Recover deleted messages
  • Create a reminder from a conversation
  • Respond to Screen Time requests for more time
  • Print or create a PDF of a conversation
• Customize Messages
  • Change settings
  • Add backgrounds
  • Create your Memoji
  • Screen, filter, report, and block texts
  • Create and manage contacts
  • Manage notifications
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Copyright and trademarks

You can choose to get notifications for every new message, each time your name is mentioned, or when you receive a message from an unknown person. You can also turn notifications off altogether.

Open Messages for me

Manage notifications by conversation

1. Go to the Messages app on your Mac.

2. Select a conversation, click the contact or group icon at the top, then do either of the following:

   • Stop notifications: Turn on Hide Alerts. Senders receive a note indicating that you have notifications silenced.

     If you have a trackpad or a Magic Mouse, you can also swipe left with two fingers on the conversation in the sidebar, then click .

     Tip: To hide alerts for several conversations at the same time, select the conversations in the sidebar, Control-click, then choose Hide Alerts.

   • Let someone know when you turn on a Focus (individual conversations only): Click Share Focus Status. The person knows that you have notifications silenced because you turned on a Focus and can still choose to notify you if necessary.

Play a sound for new messages

1. Go to the Messages app on your Mac.

2. Choose Messages > Settings, then click General.

3. Select “Play sound effects.”

4. Choose the default sound from the “Message received sound” pop-up menu.

Get notified when your name is mentioned

1. Go to the Messages app on your Mac.

2. Choose Messages > Settings, then click General.

3. Select “Notify me when my name is mentioned.”

You’re notified when your name is mentioned (even if Hide Alerts is turned on for a conversation).

Change or turn off all notifications from Messages

1. Go to the System Settings app on your Mac.

2. Click Notifications in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)

   Open Notifications settings for me

3. Go to Application Notifications, click Messages, then do one of the following:

   • Change notifications: Set options, such as the style of notifications or where to show them. To learn about the options, click at the bottom of the window.

   • Turn off all notifications from Messages: Turn off “Allow notifications.”

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