Get funky with Messages in iOS
Add text effects and more to your messages
IT WILL TAKE
10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
Ways to add text animations and other effects to your messages
YOU’LL NEED
iOS 18 or later, iOS 18.2 or later
When chatting to friends and family with the Messages app in iOS 18, you can now add special animated effects to the text itself using the new Text Effects menu.
This is ideal for emphasising certain words, or just adding a bit of extra impact to your messages. There are eight animated text effects to play with, such as Big, Shake, Explode, and Jitter. You can even add more than one effect to different parts of a message. Note that the recipient will only see these text effects if they’re also running iOS 18 or later on their device.