Video: See Apple's overhauled iOS 10 Messages with expressive text bubbles, animations & more

Last updated 8 years ago

Perhaps the biggest overhaul in Apple's upcoming iOS 10 can be seen in the Messages app, which will add the ability to send drawings, change message bubbles, replace words with emoji, use stickers, integrate third-party apps, and much more.

As seen in the video above, Messages on iOS 10 is essentially an entirely new experience, with new features found throughout. iMessage chats will become more expressive, with text bubbles that animate and move, and downloadable stickers that can be sent and stuck to images within the chat.

Messages will also gain rich links, allowing users to preview a link before tapping on it. And videos will play directly within Messages, without the need to launch a browser or separate app.

iOS 10 is now available to registered developers in a pre-release beta. Members of Apple's public beta program will be able to install the software in July, while iOS 10 will officially launch to the public this fall, likely in late September.

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18 Comments

red oak 13 Years · 1104 comments

About 8 years ago

That is a substantial iMessage update. Looks great

mac'em x 15 Years · 117 comments

About 8 years ago

Video oops: The app is "Messages", not "Messenger".

We'll let it go. : )

dacloo 20 Years · 814 comments

About 8 years ago

I feel it's kinda dumb. We don't need balloons and shit.

Can I share my location like whatsapp? Now that's useful.

Anyway, appleinsider needs to focus on creating more professional videos. The entire left part of the frame shows a blurry background of trees and bushes. The iPhone screen is unreadable due reflection. The pace is slow and doesn't really get anywhere.

mjtomlin 20 Years · 2690 comments

About 8 years ago

dacloo said:

I feel it's kinda dumb. We don't need balloons and shit.

Can I share my location like whatsapp? Now that's useful.

Anyway, appleinsider needs to focus on creating more professional videos. The entire left part of the frame shows a blurry background of trees and bushes. The iPhone screen is unreadable due reflection. The pace is slow and doesn't really get anywhere.

You must've missed the presentation... Not only can you share your current location, but if you receive a message from someone asking "Where are you?", Messages will automatically give you the option to send it.

Furthermore, Messages has been able to send map locations for a long time now. From the Maps app, click the share button, and you can send that location to other iMessage users.

EsquireCats 8 Years · 1268 comments

About 8 years ago

dacloo said:

I feel it's kinda dumb. We don't need balloons and shit.

Can I share my location like whatsapp? Now that's useful.

Anyway, appleinsider needs to focus on creating more professional videos. The entire left part of the frame shows a blurry background of trees and bushes. The iPhone screen is unreadable due reflection. The pace is slow and doesn't really get anywhere.

You don't need iOS10 to share your location inside Messages since that has been around since iOS8 (or if you didn't mind copy/pasting from maps, then even earlier.) Messages goes quite a bit further than whatsapp in location sharing as it gives you both the option to share your current location or allow the other party to follow your location live for preset amounts of time (1 hour, until the end of the day or indefinitely, which can be revoked of course.)