Chapter 2
Sending and Receiving Text and Multimedia Messages
In This Chapter
Setting up for SMS and iMessage messages
Using iMessage to text iOS devices and Macs
Sending and receiving messages
Exchanging media
Having group conversations
Some market research studies say phone calls, voicemail, and email are all being replaced by text messaging. We don’t know if that’s true, but we do know the Messages app on your iPhone is a powerful communications tool — you can use it to send text messages, images, video, even voice recordings to one person at a time or groups of friends or colleagues.
In this chapter, we show you the different ways you can send messages — traditional Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS), using Messages, the app that came with your iPhone, as well as iMessage messages, Apple’s messaging service, which you exchange with your iDevice — and Mac — user friends. With iMessage, you can begin an exchange (called a conversation in Messages lingo) ...
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