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Apple reimagines messages app, with rich links, emojis and bubble effects (CNET News)

2016-06-13
messages is the most frequently used app on iOS and people love sharing things with messages whether it's photos or links to their favorite websites but they look like this but not any longer because now we have rich links so when you share links you get artwork from the website extracted title it's really great and it's especially awesome when you get shared with things like video because they can play right in line inside the transcript look at that guy go now people really love emoji and now we've made them three times bigger in the transcript which is fantastic and to help you always reach for the right emoji we're providing emoji predictions as you type super handy but you know sometimes you typed a whole message and you realize at the end that you're totally lacking in a moja fication and so we've provided the solution when you tap on the emoji button will highlight all the emotive fiable words there and you can just tap tap tap tap and mode 2 pi but you know we wanted to do something more fundamental with messaging because today no matter what you say it's always the same bubble it always is this comes across the same way but no longer because now we have bubble effects so if you want to say it loud you can say it loud and if you want to say it more gently well now you can do that as well and you know sometimes you want to get across something personal an invisible ain't gives you the way to do that so you can just slide your finger across the bubble and clear away the message like that and it's a really great way to share a surprise a little scared to see what's behind that you can just slide across okay but you know there's nothing more personal than your own handwriting and so now we'd support handwritten messages think handwriting bubbles you see when it comes across the care there is the ink just settles in to the transcript it's really beautiful and of course we support digital touch as well so you can send these very lively sketches but also with video photos even things like your heartbeat and sometimes what you say really deserves using the whole screen so now messages can do that as well you
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