Messages Reviews

I guess the goal for apple is for everyone to suffer with carpal tunnel. Nothing is simple. Touch screen use has evolved to multiple touches for one task. The curser and magnifier could be more annoying. Tabs were much better then adding an extra page for junk or unknown numbers.. Pins… ok. But let’s customize placement and size. ( phone are only so big/small) Updating info within this app… omg… info,info, select, scroll, etc…. Why not have the hold feature and select task from list?? Brilliant right?? Guess not. That Option is available and more valuable for every app downloaded to modify home screen. Wait this one’s better, when texting someone, there is the iPhone FaceTime icon to use when you want to simply FaceTime them. But no,Let’s make it difficult to use this icon and ask if we want to do a audio FaceTime! Why don’t we just add both audio and FaceTime icons and will only appear for iPhone users. Another idea why does everything have to be horizontal, vertical can be an option, with the option for right hand or left hand users! Rethink the layout along WITH SIMPLE FUNCTIONS. NOT REPEATED ONES!!

Yes all though

Hi 🍎. I just have one small complaint. Not trying to say anything but I have A-LOT of friends and I just can’t pin them all and it makes me feel like I’m excluding all my friends. As in for all the people in the world who is dealing with this situation I know that it may sound small but it can also start fights which might sound weird but it has happened many times. I don’t want to sound rude and I rated Messages with perfect explanation. I feel like there is a lot of people with a bunch of relatives they want to pin such as mom dad and siblings but also their friends and as a girl with 2 parents 1 brother that’s already 3 and I can only fit 6 friends, I hate to make people feel left out or excluded or even worse not my friend. In the nicest way possible this really could break friendships whether it seems like it or not. Apple this could become a problem so please please fix this. I feel like it should allow people to pin as much as they want. If there has to be a limit you should at least make it 20 or 15 at least. anyway thank you for reading this message and I hope you have a great day. God Bless Jesus loves you.💕💕💕

I love Messages and have used it for many years but I do have one complaint:
There needs to be more inclusive emojis! There are so many random emojis that I have never used but you are lacking a lot of very important emojis! There are 29 different clock emojis, 13 mail emojis, 13 moon emojis, and so many others that you are basically wasting time creating but there is barely any pride flags. The best excuse that I’ve heard so far is that people don’t use the flags category enough, which is true but I do use the 💙💜💖 version a lot amd I think that the reason why people don’t use it enough is because there is a lot of flags that not a lot of people use and I understand that each flag is for a culture / place but a lot more people are queer than people who use the other flags in that category. Thank you for listening! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Ps. It would be great if you could add a red panda emoji too, their my favorite animal and i would really appreciate it

At the moment I have a complaint. I keep getting a notification that a message didn’t send. I accept it didn’t send. I don’t need to be told every day that the message didn’t send. My problem is if I keep getting these notifications you should let me be able to do something about it. I don’t want to daily notification and I don’t want to have to delete the this app to the person I attempted to send the this app to. Allow me to delete or disregard the this app. Sending some this app a day later makes zero sense.
Thank you!
Update : I’m still getting a reminder that the message wasn’t sent. I’m giving choices like try again. Send an SMS, or cancel. Cancel doesn’t work. Every day I’ve tried to cancel so why do I still receive reminders that it did not send. In the past deleting the whole message trail stopped the reminders. It didn’t work this time. I don’t need reminders that my message didn’t send. I was there when it happened. Find a way to fix this error. Please!

So I think Messages is great, I’m a young teen and my dad won’t let me get other messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal). So I use only iMessage for everything! 🥰 Some suggestions for Memoji tho. So the idea is great. I love having stickers right here for free in Messages … but u need to add an accessories folder with necklaces, bracelets , backpacks, purses. 😊 Add headbands, Maybe eyebrow piercings, and more clothing, earrings, and hairstyles. Maybe a watch? Apple Watch, Fitbit, fancy Watch. Stuff like this would be even better! ☺️ Still, iMessage is a great app. And Memoji makes it even better! I love ❤️ Messages 😊 Thnx for reading 😁

Edit:
So I’m really disappointed 🥺. I have an iPhone 13 mini and this app keeps crashing! It did this with my old phone, iPhone 6s Plus, and I though it was just bc it was so old. But now with my new iPhone it’s still crashing various times. It’s not SUPER frequent, just like once or twice a week it might crash. And then I’d get texts on my Apple Watch and not my iPhone. I would have to turn it off and sometimes restart it. I am disappointed in this app but I will still like it better if y’all add stuff to Memoji! Sadly I’m eliminating a star 😢

this app is a very good app, but I have some suggestions on Memojis. First of all, good job adding different body shapes! Not having all the Memojis skinny and flat chested is a huge improvement. But there could be more. #1: necklaces, bracelets, watches and rings. Jewelry is a big way to express yourself. #2: more hair options. Now, there are already a lot of hairstyles, but more braid/dreadlock styles, and more wavy/curly hair. There is straight hair and very curly hair, but no slightly curly hair, and one wavy option that comes with bangs! Also more hair color options, such as turquoise and rainbow. #3: being able to take away all or parts of of the arms, instead of all of them being fully armed. Also adding prosthetics. Not all people are born with two whole arms. People lose arms for various reasons. #4: adding scars. And finally, #5: more clothing options, as well as being able to add words/pictures onto the clothing. More dresses, more casual shirts, more shirt styles, and tank tops would be great. I really enjoy making Memojis, but with the additions of what I’ve said above, I feel like it could be much better. I hope you’ll take my suggestions into consideration. 🩷

It’s a very good app if you wanna get in touch with people but 3 things that bothers me the most Is that first of all when your texting it’s hard to under stand what people are saying or how there saying it like for example if someone said “ok” do mean ok 🙄😒 or ok! 😊and don’t get me wrong emojis are a good way to express but sometimes people can use the crying emoji as a joke which is not funny second of all it’s the worst way to get in a fight like once a friend said “I know you ____ so bye” I thought she said we’re not friends anymore but she meant I need space dont text me back please so we got in a big fight. Last thing is I was trying to talk to a friend but it kept not sending or “ message failed to send” so reached out to a couple of people to see if they new if she accidentally deleted me, she didn’t and I’m still having this problem I went to Messages and tried to see if there were updates I saw the reviews and thought it be a good idea to warn people about it! If you ever think a friend is mad ask to call it’s a way better way to communicate!

👌🏻 love it! Can’t get better. One suggestion I have is that you should remove the clicking when you punch the buttons on the pad. Also, make the group chats easier to make please!! It is so hard to make them for my family and alone, Christmas and birthday group chats. I would appreciate it a lot, and so would my family and the Christmas, and birthday group chats. And every time I use an emoji, it glitches out but it only does that on Messages . I don’t know if it’s just my phone or a bug going on with Messages . It’s super weird. I’ve never seen an app do that before, especially not an app like this. And sometimes it even glitches out and types in double letters and just sends some crazy stuff automatically that I can’t control, so yeah. I don’t know if I’m being hacked or if it’s just me. 😐 I would add a star if you would try to fix these bugs if it’s just not my phone or me being hacked. Thank you for reading.

A fan of Messages, wolf 🐺 lover❤️‍🔥

this app app, as part of the phone, serves its purpose. I’ve never had a problem with it until this one feature: location sharing. In one instance, I accidentally clicked on share my current location in a chat with acquaintances, which didn’t go anywhere as they understood that it was an accident. On multiple occasions, however, I’ve had run ins with scammers who got my number and had to go into the info tab to block their number. When I do this, I always get very close to the location sharing tab, which would send my location to scammers phishing for my personal data, which they would certainly share around to their scammer network. What I’m suggesting isn’t a removal of the system as a whole, just a confirmation prompt that pops up when you click on location sharing, as, in my opinion, it is an incredibly important piece of your private info that should stay private. Thanks! (I know nobody at Apple will probably read this but when I sent a review to classroom they changed it so here’s hoping!🤞)

I love CarPlay and how it works with iMessage. But the recent iPhone update to 18.2 has some bugs with iMessage. (1). Sometimes after iMessage and Siri read an incoming message, and it asks if I want to reply, I say “yes” and nothing happens. After about 5 seconds, iMessage closes. (2). Previous versions when you want to speak a message and you identify your contact, Siri would say “what do you want to say” and I would see a spinning ball on my cars screen letting me know it is waiting for me to speak. Now, there is no spinning ball so I’m not sure iMessage is ready for me to speak. After 5 seconds, it closes down. Finally, this is not new but hoping the developers can adjust, but after hearing a message, it asks if you want to reply (and on the cars screen, it shows an icon with “reply” along with “done”. If you say “no” the screen icon for “done” quickly changes to “call”. So sometimes when you also reach over to your screen to hit the “done” icon, it has switched to “call” and all of sudden you are placing a call. Seems there should be much more time before the icon switches to “call” or just show it always as Another icon in addition to the “done”. Thanks

i love this app and its my main source of texting other than discord and snapchat. however, theres one thing that i think would make this app a WHOLE lot better and continue to be up there. so like whatsapp and snapchat both have things where u can post ur status. so what if this app did that too? it would create an even bigger attraction to this app and im pretty sure teens and young adults would especially enjoy this feature. you could like status post pics and all your contacts could see it, though in your settings it could be changed. i also know that snap and insta have sendit, so what if there was a sendit-message collab? newer generations would enjoy that. also, could you please make edit and unsend timings longer? sometimes u send something and dont realize theres a huge typo or smth and when u want to change it u run out of “time”. maybe make that longer?
other than that, i think this app is a great app for communication, and the stuff with memoji and game pigeon are very enjoyable!

iMessage is hands down my favorite messaging app, and honestly, I’ve never seen a better messaging app. It’s fast, reliable, and seamlessly integrates with all my Apple devices. I love how easy it is to send text this app, photos, videos, and voice memos, and the ability to send this app over Wi-Fi is incredibly useful when I’m in areas with poor cellular service. The end-to-end encryption gives me peace of mind knowing my conversations are private.

Messages ’s features, like stickers, animations, and the ability to send payments through Apple Pay, make texting more fun and convenient. Group chats are super easy to manage, and the syncing across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac ensures I never miss a message, no matter what device I’m using.

Overall, iMessage makes communication effortless, and it’s the only messaging app I use. I absolutely love it—it’s fast, secure, and packed with great features. Definitely a five-star app!

I was thinking that you should change how many pins people can have, i think you should have more than 9 pins available because once i had 9 pins up and i had made a new friend and i was pinned on her phone, she had gotten mad at me because she wasn’t pinned on my phone and now we are fighting. i would have removed people but they were my family and some of my real close friends. i think adding more pins will be good because people that don’t want pins don’t have to have them but people who do can have them if they want. another good reason you should add pins is it shows the pictures of the people you put up/pinned and if you have bad eye sight this helps people be able to see who they are looking for or trying to text. adding more pins would be a great addition to this app because it helps people who have bad eye sight and it helps people just in general. thank you for changing this and i hope y’all have a good day.

This is probably my favorite messaging app on the iPhone. It’s really cool animations and speed make this, in my opinion, much better than WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. The UI in iMessages is very modern and clean giving you access to your favorite contacts with ease. After iOS 14 and 15, Apple has really turned around the experience and created a whole new world. The new photo carousel view is very satisfying to flick through and the mini apps built into iMessage give you quick access to sharing content with friends and family.

The tight integration with iOS, your iPhone and Siri make Messages even better. Using ‘Hey Siri’ to send this app with my AirPods make it super seamless just to send this app on the go without even pulling out your iPhone. Surprisingly, Siri is very accurate in transcribing what I say so I have no doubts about using this amazing feature. Furthermore, I love the way I can access my this app through Spotlight Search on my iPhone, iPads and Macs. Also, with iOS 15 the ‘Shared With You’ across Apple apps like Music and Safari make iMessage even more necessary for iPhone users.

All in all, iMessage is definitely the best messaging app on the market, from its clean interface to its safe and secure messaging and integration throughout Apple products making it an essential and the only messaging app you’ll ever need.

Personally, iMessage has always been a solid choice compared to other messaging apps like Messenger. Although they both have their pros and cons, one of the biggest pros of iMessage is that it has access to apps from Messages store, making it more expansive and more customizable. I love how it also feels well polished and well designed. But it's not perfect, it's far from it. There are three features that come to my mind that iMessage has always lacked that would make it significantly better. 1, timed texts. Having the ability to send text this app natively by easily selecting the upcoming time desired would be so useful to me. 2, themes. I know this is all preference, but I like each conversation to feel a little different for each person, and through themes (even if it's just changing basic colors of message bubbles) would make a big difference. And 3, mass text options. The current options available are okay, but to add a switch to easily toggle

So i was looking through the reviews and why are there so manny one stars? I use Messages every day all the time. Sure there are some annoying things, like it doesnt allow you to unsend things and edit them if you dont do it right away. But i can tell iMessages has fixed a lot of things, like you totally can facetime and text at the same time. 😝 I love texting my friends, especially since im switching schools, so Messages is a LIFE SAVER ❤️
I also 💗 that the contacts, phone, and facetime apps are all conected to iMessage; so right there in Messages if you tap the facetime button in a groupchat, it happens. No need to go to another app to call. This is so great, but for ipad users im super sorry u cant text andriod phones. I experienced this with my friend when i had an apple ipad. it made me sad cuz all my friends had phones and could text her but i couldnt. But now i have a phone and its all good. If thats not the case for you though still consider iMessages. I sincerely LOVE it🫶

There are so many reasons why I love Messages, but the most of all I really liked Messages because when I had an iPad, all the other text messaging apps didn’t let me text my friends and I felt like I was left out because all the other friends had like their group chat and like I was excluded from all them, but when I found Messages, I was added to all the group chats, even though I had a Gmail and not a real phone number and it was really great because I really felt like I was like a part of my class group and it was really nice to be able to like text my friends privately if I wanna talk to them about something. I also really love IMessages because whenever I need to contact someone in emergency I can just ask Siri and to send someone a message and it literally goes straight to them without any glitches any reasons not to and with other apps they say like sorry can’t do that. It’s really frustrating and obnoxious that they can’t do that but with Messages it makes things so much easier and I really really love it. I recommend it five stars love it.

I love messaging just only thing that I’m really not OK with is that they don’t have a lien full body they just have the head the heads honestly sort of scare me I wish they were more realistic but that’s fine I love messaging my friends and my family it’s easier to like get a hold of them and everything it also helps bring relationships together by talking to people who live far away that you know and your family lives in like Hawaiian Ulysses warehouse far away from there then you can message that it’s really a good app and everything just whoever makes the emojis please try and make it either more realistic heads or make a full lion like the body with the head because it would be creepy if it was just the head to me it’s creepy so this might be wrong but I would give it like a four star no five because it’s a nice app it helps me contact my family find where they are and they can find where I am and then you can also text your friends you can ask them if I can hang out or anything so yeah that’s my review

Hi, My name is LynniceMarie! And I used iMessages for a while until my mom said, I couldn't use it anymore. A few months later, I was searching for a safe kids messaging app. I found Xooloo Messenger Kids. But, After 2 months, I decided to delete Xooloo Messenger Kids because Xooloo kept reporting my parents' account for no reason. Then, I found Messenger Kids, so I tried it. Then, in Messenger Kids, it said I had to Login a Facebook account. I told my Mom, she had to Login the Facebook account. Then, she said,'' I don’t need to have a Facebook account to do this.'' My Mom had an idea, she said I can use iMessages again, because we can't find a good enough messenger. Then I was so excited! The day it happened, My Mom was busy, figuring out the Apple ID and stuff to sign in iMessage for me and my little sister's iPad. Then we made it complete! Me and my sister were confused, we were figuring out how to message each other. Then, I tried putting in my sister's phone number and it worked. My sister tried putting in my email and it worked, we can text without anything bugging us. Plus, use iMessages, it's better and safe. My Mom & Dad use it to text each other.

I like Messages a lot. Idk why the rating is so low, well ofc they had a bad experience but you cant really complain if you have an iPhone 7! Most of the negative reviews are people that are too lazy to replace there phone or just don't know how to use app. The one negative thing is that apple ipads cant text with all devices which is annoying. For future: Im not knocking any stars because Messages is perfectly fine but for future updates to keep Messages interesting i have some suggestions . I like peoples ideas to add more mejoi clothes/accessories. I think it would be cool to add themes to your main page or whatever you want to call it and be able to change the chat bubble color. One last thing maybe you could have an option to pin more conversations? Overall this is a great app and i hope you take my suggestions into consideration for future updates! Edit: Even with iOS 16 you cant edit/erase green this app. Not a big deal just thought i would say this.