The photos and videos you send via the Messages app stay on your device (iPhone or iPad) and furthermore they may take up a lot of storage space on your iOS device. If you want to delete them, you may want to do so, especially if you have saved them or if you do not […]
How To Share Photos, Videos, Or Voice Messages in Messages
The iOS Messages app lets you send and receive photos, videos, or audio files on your iPhone or iPad. This short article explains how you can share photos, videos and voice messages with text messages (or iMessages) from your iPhone or iPad. See also: Messages Read Receipts Not Working, Fix How to send photos and […]
Messages: “Number Changed to Primary” Notification, Fix
You can send texts, pictures, and videos messages from the Messages app. When you send or receive messages (iMessage or SMS/MMS), you may see a notification saying “Number changed to Primary” (see below). So, what does that mean? And how can you remove it? Here is what and how: Newer iPhone models (Phone XS, iPhone […]
macOS Messages Freezes or Crashes, Fix
Is the Messages app crashing or freezing unexpectedly on your Mac? There’s nothing more annoying than having the Messages app crash on you when you are sending messages. Sometimes you may receive “an unexpected error message” or “an internal Messages error occured”. This problem is important because it will prevent you from sending or receiving […]
Messages Read Receipts Not Working, Fix
This short article explains how you can troubleshoot when read receipts feature for iMessage is not working properly. Several iPhone and iPad users have noticed that read receipts is not always sending or failing to deliver. For instance, some users have said that they stopped getting the notifications that their messages are read even thought you […]
How To Create and Manage Group Messages on your iPhone or iPad
Group messages let you communicate with a group of people (3 or more people) at once. This can be a great way to stay in touch with friends and family members. With group messaging, group members can send and receive text messages, videos and photos. See also: Messages Showing Numbers, Not Contact Names? Fix This […]
Messages Showing Numbers, Not Contact Names? Fix
Recently, I was having this problem: Every time when I receive a message , the message app was showing its phone number instead of its contact name even though I had saved the contact information of this particular person in my iPhone. For example, I had a friend named Selma and her number was (217) […]
Stuck on Downloading Messages from iCloud, Fix
If you own more than one Apple devices (e.g., iPhone, iPad, Mac Pro etc), you can set up iCloud Message Syncing, aka, Messages in iCloud. What this means is that you can use iCloud to keep all of your messages updated and available across devices by using Messages in iCloud. This will even help you save […]
Text Messages Are Disappearing? Fix
It seems that some users are experiencing this problem. The problem is that the Messages app stops working properly for some users after updating their iPhone or iPad devices to the latest iOS software version or after restarting their devices. More specifically, here are the some symptoms that users are having: The Messages app is […]
Cannot Send or Receive Messages on Your Mac? Fix
Several users have reported that they are unable to send and /or receive text messages and iMessages on Mac. This article explains how you can troubleshoot this issue. See also: iMessage Won’t Send Pictures Users report that when they attempt to send a message, they see a little red exclamation mark symbol next to my message, […]