Make special text effects on your iPhone by typing out certain phrases, like "Happy Birthday." You can manually add effects to any text you send by holding your finger on the send button.

The addition of cool new text effects gives iPhone owners new ways to communicate and they're surprisingly easy to use. Text effects offer the option to animate words in ways that can help convey ...

But that's not all. They've also added some fun animated text effects to really make your messages pop. Before diving into the new text formatting and animated effects, it’s essential to ensure ...

Apple recently released the public beta version of iOS 18, and with it comes the ability to add text effects to any message we send on iMessage and liven up our conversations. Like many other ...

There’s a way to disable this in iOS and iPadOS. Not, unfortunately, with a switch marked Disable Text Effects. Instead, go to Settings > General > Keyboards, scroll to All Keyboards ...

Some of the best research on font-associated disfluency—or “the ... in 2010 and is still cited by researchers looking into font effects today. That research, from researchers at Princeton ...

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Apple really wants you to use its perplexing Text Effects animations. It used to be rare that Apple would force new features on us that we didn’t expect, like a spider dropping from a ceiling ...

In iOS 18, Apple has added several new features to its Messages app, one being the ability to add neat text effects to your messages to make them more expressive. The new animated text effects can ...