iMessage is Cool Again!
So like after pepper spray video, three girls texted me, saying like, hey, how you doin'?
So I would say things are going uphill for me.
Hey, what's up guys, Keaton here, so Apple dropped iOS 10 yesterday.
It has a ton of cool new features.
I'm really drawn to iMessage, and I think it's safe to say that iMessage has become
cool again, so let's check it out.
So ever since Apple released iMessage, like, five years ago, it really hasn't been cool.
It kinda lost its wow factor, the year after it came out, and I can safely say iOS 10 has
brought the cool features back.
So let's check it out, pullin' up iMessage right here.
I got my good friend, Brandy Marks, right here.
And you can see right at the top, it actually displays their contact, which is really sweet,
just because it kinda adds a fresh, new perspective, versus just having their name at the top.
Versus just having their name at the top.
So another feature you can do is, individually turn on read receipts, so I don't know about
you guys, but I never turned on read receipts in the past.
There are some people that text me that I just really don't want to talk to half the
time, and once you have read receipts on, that kinda defeats the purpose.
Now, I know you could kind of get a feature like this with jailbreaking your phone, but
since the majority of us don't really jailbreak, it wasn't a thing until now, so all you do
is go to the I right here, and you can toggle on, Send Read Receipts, and it will send read
receipts to individually marked people, which is so awesome.
So, now,sorry.
So.
So now you can tell certain people when you've read their messages, and then for the annoying
ones, you don't have to tell them at all.
Now, a feature I had no idea was even possible, is this thing called, screens, or background
text, as I like to call it.
So I'm gonna say, hey, here.
And then this little new blue icon, has an arrow pointing up, is actually how you send
a message, so just side note there, but once you type a message, you can actually force
touch down, or, sorry, 3-D touch down, always a, it's always a mind boggle, which it really
is.
So after you've 3-D pressed, 3-D touched down, you can toggle over to, Send With Effect,
so we're going to hit, Screen.
I can do balloons, confetti, 'cause it's always a party with me and Brandy, and then lasers,
so we're gonna do lasers.
I'm gonna hit the arrow here.
And just like that, you can get kind of customized screens per message to send you certain people
you want.
It's pretty sweet, and I kind of only see it going up from here, just kind of getting
crazier screens when you send messages, but it's pretty sweet.
So I don't know about you guys, but I use emojis a lot, and up until yesterday, using
emojis wasn't really fun.
You just hit the keyboard down here, you swipe between the emoji you want, and then you select
it, and send.
It's not that fun, and it really isn't that intuitive, so Apple's changed that, so for
example, I'd say, hey, I'll be home after the football game to play with you.
So if I typed that to Brandy, and I hit the emoji button down here, it's gonna highlight
a few words in orange, and then I just tap those words, and I can actually replace the
words with emojis, and say I'm just typing, so I typed the word, home, I can actually
put the home emoji right next to the word, so it comes up in the predictive section,
so that's pretty sweet, oh, and then when you send an emoji, it's now three times bigger,
so it's no longer super small where you sometimes have to, like, squint to see what the other
person's saying.
Three times bigger, which is super awesome.
Another cool thing, is you can add some flare to your messages, so for example, my girl,
Brandy, is gonna hit me with a message, and you're gonna see how it has much more depth
to it.
You see that, it's just like, pops out right at your face, and I can actually do the same,
so if I type, I'm excited, and I hit, I force touch here, I can say, I'll do, send with
loud.
So I can add like a ton more customizations.
One of my favorite features on iOS 10, is this thing called, rich links, so, on my iOS
nine device, if I was to go to, like, YouTube, want to share this video here, which is the
pepper spray video, if you haven't seen it, check it out right up here, or links below,
but basically, if I want to go ahead and share it, I copy the link, and then go to like an
iMessage.
And just send the link.
All it's gonna do is send the link, but in iOS 10, on my 6s Plus right here, someone
sends me a video, or a webpage, it's gonna go ahead, and do something pretty sweet, so
hang on, there you go.
So you can see, it kind of shows you a little snippet, so this is like the Daft Punk video,
so if I was to go ahead and play it, it's gonna actually play a little tiny window from
iMessage, and the same thing is, if someone wants to send you like a website, for example,
it's gonna show you a little snippet, like it is right here, and it's just kind of a
cooler way to see content, and not really have to go to a different app.
So iOS 10 has some pretty funny slash weird features, and one of those is, you can send
your heartbeat to your friends.
So, that's just another way to creep 'em out, so what you do for this, is you see this like
little arrow pointing to the right here.
You just swipe on that, and you see like this heartbeat here.
So you just press that, hold two fingers down, and you can see, I just sent my girl, Brandy,
my heartbeat.
Also, you can draw a message to a person, so I could say like, hey.
Have that go ahead, and send, and you can see that in real time, and, let's get back
to the keyboard here.
And if you want to write a longer message, you just tilt the phone horizontally.
I could say, hey, I'm excited to see you, and if you type a ton, it's actually gonna
go over on two screens, or however many long the message is.
Hit done, send, and just like that, you can literally draw your conversations.
So that's iOS 10, now, just keep in mind it is a beta, so it's not perfect, and it's gonna
be perfect in the fall when they release it, but if you want to check it out early now,
hit the link in the description below, and yeah, it's pretty sweet, so that's pretty
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