Messages, Types of Messages, Creating and Sending Messages

Learn how to send and receive different messages using the default Messages app on your phone.

Types of Messages

The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text messages to and from other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider’s message service.

The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and receive multimedia messages (such as picture, video, and audio messages) to and from other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider’s multimedia message service.

Messaging icons are displayed at the top of the screen and indicate when messages are received and their type.

Creating and Sending Messages

This section describes how to create and send a message using the Messaging app.

1.From a Home screen, tap Messages > Compose.

enter a recipient or tap Add from Contacts to select a recipient from your Contacts. You can also select the recipient based on Groups, Favorites, or Logs.

•If adding a recipient from your Contacts, tap the contact to place a checkmark then tap Done. The contact will be placed in the recipients field.

•If manually typing additional recipients separate each entry with a semicolon (;). More recipients can be added at any time before the message is sent.

•For the Groups option, tap a group and select members to add to the message. The maximum number of recipients is 10.

•Tap Add emojis to choose an available emoji from a list and then add it into your message (at the cursor location) if desired.

4.Review your message and tap Send.

Note: If you exit a message before you send it, the message is automatically saved as a draft.