iPhone: 3 new features for iMessages in iOS 18

Since iOS 10, iPhone users can react to iMessages they receive, thanks to the featureTapbackfrom Apple. The latter should receive an upgrade in iOS 18, as specified inlatest report from Mark Gurman, which leaked a preview of many announcements that Apple is due to share on Monday.

Many concern artificial intelligence, about half, but not those concerning iMessage, which is nevertheless entitled to interesting new possibilities.

Effects, colored icons and message programming

In Messages for iPhone, according to Mark Gurman, you will soon be able to trigger afireworks effect, or other,with individual words, rather than the entire message.Tapback functionality to react to iMessages is evolvingMoreoverwith new colorful icons. MacRumors specifies that users will haveentitled to several hundred new emojis:

This means that the Messages app would finally support inline emoji reactions, a feature that other messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram have offered for a long time. Currently, the Messages app only allows adding emoji to messages as stickers.

Finally, users will soon be able toschedule the sending of a message, a feature that was highly requested by iPhone owners.

A relationship with Google

These measures come shortly after Google's recent introduction of RCS on Android. As a reminder, RCS is the new standard for sending messages via the cellular network on Android. With this, Android users benefit from advanced messaging features, like on iMessage.

Apple has also agreed to support the standard in iOS, which should put an end to the controversies concerning thediscrimination of Android usersin iMessages groups.RCS support should arrive in a future iPhone update, in iOS 18, or earlier.

We also thought that the RCS had been imposed on Apple by the European Union, but it is likely that it is another path whichmanaged to bring down Cupertino, where others have failed.

See you here Monday June 10 at 7 p.m. to find out more!