Messages, 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 > Messages.

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 or Favorites.

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

•Enter additional recipients by separating 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 then tap the contacts to place a check mark then tap DONE. The contacts are placed in the recipients field.

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

6.Tap Send.

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