Messaging, Types of Messages, Create and Send Messages

Learn how to send and receive different messages using the default messaging 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.

Create and Send Messages

1.From a Home screen, tap Apps > Messaging.

2.Tap Compose.

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

4.If adding a recipient from your Contacts, tap the contact to place a check mark then tap DONE. The contact will be placed in the recipients field.

5.Enter additional recipients by separating each entry with a semicolon (;) and then using the previous procedure. More recipients can be added at any time before the message is sent.

For the Group option, if the number of recipients is less than 10, all members in the group will be added. You will need to delete any unnecessary members in the list by selecting the trash can icon and deleting unwanted entries.

6.Tap the Enter message field and use the onscreen keyboard to enter a message.

7.Tap Attachment to attach a file to the message.

8.Review the message and tap Send.

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