Displaced Palestinians in Gaza are expressing their thanks to student protesters on US college campuses by writing messages of gratitude on their tents in Rafah.
Is there really no way to use an emoji (not a Memoji, an emoji) as a sticker on #macOS#Messages? You can do it on iOS, but there is no such button on the Mac?
@Crichton Yeah…you can select emoji on iOS that will then appear there.
This sounds like somebody didn’t want to bother creating an emoji picker for macOS Messages, and they couldn’t use the one in the Character Viewer. Tsk tsk.
iPhone Tip. Message Shortcut. For someone that you send messages to a lot, would it be handy to have a shortcut on your home screen that when you double tap it, it brings up messages, fills in who it is to automatically, and it puts you in the edit field ready to type your message. Well, this can be done pretty easily using the shortcuts app and something called an URL Action. Here are the steps.
1, Open the shortcuts app and choose Create New Shortcut.
2, Need to search for the shortcut action to use. Go to the bottom of the screen and swipe left going back up the screen. After the dictate button will be the search edit box.
3, In the edit box, just type, Open Url.
4, Swipe right, and one of the search results will be Open URLS, double tap on that.
5, Go to the top of the screen if not there.
6, As you swipe, you will come to a done button, then you will hear, Open URLS, draggable, show actions menu, swipe one more time and you should hear, Open, URL. This is where you need to be.
7, Now, flick down and choose Edit URL. This will open an edit box and put the keyboard at the bottom of the screen. Even though you can swipe around the screen, you can still type in this edit box.
8, So type, with no spaces, sms, colon, then the phone number of the person you want to make this link for.
9, All done making the shortcut. Go to top of screen and hit the done button. Now you have to rename it and add it to your home screen.
Renaming Shortcut.
1, From the top of the screen, swipe and you should hear, Open URLS. This is the shortcut that you just made!
2, Do a single finger triple tap on the shortcut to bring up a pop up menu. Now while swiping across voiceover does not have focus on what it reads to you, so you have to go past what you are looking for and then swipe back before making your choice. So swipe across until you hear details, then swipe back to rename and Double tap it.
3, A rename window will pop up, swipe across and enter the name in the edit field.
4, Once finished, hit the done button.
Adding to the Home Screen.
1, do a single finger triple tap on the shortcut like you did before. This time choose details. Remember, to make sure voiceover has focus on the correct thing, swipe past the details button, then go back to it.
2, On the details screen, swipe to the button that says, Add To Home Screen. This will add the shortcut to your home screen. If you need to, you can move this shortcut just like you move any of apps, and put it where you want.
Enclosing, I do realize that there are other ways of sending messages, like with Siri, or maybe by using a widget. But for those who normally open the messages app, go to the compose button, or to the person in their list of conversations, this is definitely a quicker way. The best thing is that there are multiple ways of doing it, and having choices is always a good thing! 😄 #iPhone#Tip#Shortcuts#Messages#Homescreen#Quick#Easy#blind#Accessible
@ChrisChaffin You may want to add an example of the sms: URL since you simplified it and actually used the word colon. But thanks for this, I didn't know you could directly open a URL like that. I probably don't use Shortcuts to even 2% of its potential.
#OliviaTroye, former member of former Vice President Mike #Pence’s staff, tweeted,
“While [#McDaniel] now states that she doesn’t condone #violence and attacks on law enforcement ... would love to hear her #explanation regarding the #fundraising text #messages she authorized that went out from the #RNC attacking the #FBI for doing their jobs. She owes the national security and law enforcement community an #apology.”
Seeing an absurd number of messages in my iCloud backup lead me to investigate the internals of the Apple Messages local database. I documented my attempts to clean up some bad records.
I’m not sure how iMessage from a Mac desktop appears, (gray?) but apparently this hack is only phone to phone. Via old SMS pathways although it may allow more full featured media, fewer limits, than green bubble.
Honestly, as an adult, I don’t always notice the color. I don’t realize what has come through or gotten through, as far as media size and type limits (longer messages might split?)
@davemark There’s apparently a copyright carve-out regarding interoperability, which would be the likely defense. Doesn’t mean that Apple won’t litigate, but it would mean there’s not a guarantee the company would win.
@ayoubabedrabbo depends on how much you're interested in the the technical stuff ;-) If you just want to use XMPP, join any reputable server. If you're technically interested and like to be responsible for your own stuff, set up Prosody (easy) or Ejabberd (more challenging).
Maybe join an existing server first and start from there?
How the new iOS 17 "Messages Check-in" process works.
"The check-in itself is a simple prompt making sure you’re okay. If you don’t respond to it within 15 minutes, the contact you’re chatting with gets a message saying that something might be wrong. "
@davemark But first, go to Settings > Messages > iMessage Apps and turn off all the apps you don’t want there in the first place. Then there’s less sorting to do.
I also put my most used functions closer to + button. It feels like it’s quicker to access.