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Messages
Learn how to send and receive
different messages using the
default messaging app on your
phone.
Types of Messages
The messaging app provides the following message
types:
•
Text Messages (SMS)
•
Multimedia Messages (MMS)
The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send
and receive text messages to and from other mobile
phones or email addresses. To use this feature, you
may need to subscribe to your service provider’s
message service.
The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you
send and receive multimedia messages (such as
picture, video, and audio messages) to and from
other mobile phones or email addresses. To use this
feature, you may need to subscribe to your service
provider’s multimedia message service.
Messaging icons are displayed at the top of the
screen and indicate when messages are received
and their type.
Create and Send Messages
This section describes how to create a send a
message using Messages.
1. From a Home screen, tap Apps >
M
essages > Compose.
2. Tap the Enter recipients field to manually enter
a recipient or tap A
dd Recipient to select a
recipient from your Contacts or Groups.
•
If manually entering recipients, enter additional
recipients by separating each entry with a
semicolon (;).
•
If adding a recipient from your Contacts, tap
the contact to place a check mark, and then
tap DONE. The contact will be placed in the
recipients field.
•
For the Group option, if the number of
recipients is less than ten, all members in the
group can be added by placing a check mark
by the contacts and tapping DONE.
3. Tap the Enter message field to enter a message.
•
Tap Attach to add images, audio, and more
to your message.
•
Tap Add emojis to choose an available
emoji from the list and add it to your message
(at the cursor location).
4. Review your message and tap SEND.
Note: If you exit a message before you send it, the
message is automatically saved as a draft.
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