**Threaded Conversations Made Easy**

In recent updates to Apple's Messages app, a new feature has been added that makes it easy to engage with others on messages. One of the key features is the ability to see the entire thread of conversation, including all replies and responses. This can be done by tapping on the thread icon, which resembles a bubble with an arrow, at the top of the screen. This allows users to see how the conversation has unfolded and engage with others more easily.

**Nested Replies**

When replying to a message, it's now possible to reply directly to that specific message or photo. To do this, simply tap on the "Reply" button next to the message or photo, and your response will be nested in the thread. This makes it easy to engage with others in real-time, without having to scroll through the entire conversation.

**Mentioning People**

Another new feature is the ability to mention people in conversations. To do this, simply type a person's name and tap on the bubble that appears next to their name. This will notify them of the mention and allow you to engage with them directly. When mentioning someone, it's now possible to see who was mentioned in the conversation, and even receive notifications if they reply.

**Changes to Group Conversations**

In addition to these new features, Apple is also making changes to group conversations. While details are limited at this time, we can expect that these changes will make it easier to manage and engage with group conversations.

**New Emoji Characters**

Apple is continuing to push the boundaries of emoji character creation. New hairstyles have been added, including man bun, top knot, and a simple side part. There are now nine ages available, ranging from baby-faced to older adults. Face coverings have also been added as an option, with new designs and colors available.

**New Meme Og Stickers**

The Messages app is getting even more expressive with the addition of new meme og stickers. New stickers include a fist bump, hug, and blush. These stickers can be used to add personality and humor to conversations.

**Improved Me Emojis**

Me emojis have been updated to be more expressive and charismatic. The muscles in the emojis have been remapped to make them more responsive and engaging. This makes it easy to convey emotions and reactions through these simple yet powerful icons.

**Coming Changes to iPad and Mac Messages**

While changes are primarily being rolled out on iPhone, we can expect similar updates on iPad and even Mac Messages apps. These changes will bring the same features, including threaded conversations, nested replies, mentioning people, and new emoji characters.

**Best Practices for Creating Content**

If you're looking to create content around Apple's latest Messages app updates, be sure to check out our price guide for the best deals on any Apple gear. We'll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome everybody it is Andrew here from Apple Insider taking a look at messages within iOS 14 Apple has continued to push messages forward over the last few big OS releases and iOS 14 is no different with a huge pile of new features to check out starting with pin conversation pin conversations go right to the top of your messages making them easy to keep track of as usual even swipe to the left to mute or delete a conversation but now if you moved to the right you can pin that conversation up to nine conversations can be pin here at the top of the messages app if you look quickly at grouped messages now these group conversations are also radically different if we jump into this one with two people with Wes and Jessie I can actually go in and see all their photos but here I can change the name and the photo of this group conversation yes before you could add a group name but in this new interface you can not only add that group name but in emoji a photo and an emoji whatever you want to do to set for the kind of group logo in this case we're gonna go with maybe a guitar and we're gonna adjust the color to maybe there's light bluish gray that'll go ahead and set our group name in this case we're just gonna make it team AppleInsider the photo is the largest part there in the center with everyone else's faces around the outside and those that are most vocal or frequent in a group their photos will be larger around the outside if we go back you can also see how whether you're looking at a group conversation or a single conversation they'll actually have little speech bubbles coming out letting you know when somebody talked or who that person is if it's that group combo now moving back to that group combo because it really is a lot to talk about in these group conversations you can get messy fast and parts of conversations can get left behind but not with iOS 14 now we have a bunch of new features including mentions and inline replies so you can see a lot of that going on here in my conversation with West and Jesse about the new iOS 14 Vedas like here that message is actually replied to a really old message so have to scroll up quite a bit to see the original message keep going way up here towards the top boom this was sent by Jesse quite a while ago and I first replied he unless it replies because that kind of bubble and that arrow to go with it and then we had a whole conversation here back to that original message so you can really see kind of how they are all pulled together but sometimes that can still be confusing so you actually can tap in and views that entire nested reply chain just in one view makes it really easy to see all of those replies that one and not gonna confuse with the rest of the conversation of course these threaded replies aren't easy to do something to hold out on a message or in this case a picture and tap on reply it'll go ahead and let me reply directly to that message photo Jeff whatever it may be we can go ahead and put our comment our message our reply right there and tap send and now it's nested in there so if we go back to the main screen you'll see even though that sticker is way up there I have it small or grayed out there with my applied to it and I tap on that one apply it'll bring up that entire chain the entire threaded view of messages additionally you can mention people so you can do this just by typing their name and then tap it on the little bubble that appears so in this case I'm gonna reply back to West letting him know that I like the stickers and when it comes up I can tap on his name it says West Hillyard tap on that it lets you know with a little animation that he was tagged in there and sent and what that means is you'll actually get a notification that he was mentioned like right here I have the conversation muted but I still got an alert that Wes Hilliard mentioned me in my conversation with Jessie and him in here you can see even though it is on do not disturb I stole that notification icon there on the left hand side aside from all those changes to group conversations we are also seeing changes coming to Kenneth the an emoji or the meme og characters as well as the me emoji stickers mildly disappointing is we don't have any new an emoji characters so all the same characters that were here before are still here so there are no new an emoji characters but me emoji definitely got some improvements Apple continues to push the meme og character creation further making it more diverse and more emotive in the characters that you create there are several new hairstyles with the updated emoji including man bun top knot and a simple side part there have been minor changes across other various aspects of the meme og character creation just some small tweaks and a few little enhancements here in there but under head we actually updates to age now there are nine ages that you can go between from baby-faced a little bit older to anywhere in between so those are all new options now under head we have several new options for hairstyles there are actually 16 new sorry head styles head where they're actually sixteen new styles including cyclist helmet the nurse's cap swim cap there's the mortarboard graduation hat obviously there's a ton in here I don't even know all the names for them for face coverings those are new this year you can actually add face coverings and change the color of those masks who seems particularly relevant in these corona virus pandemic times and then we have three new meme og stickers on top of all those new customization options so these include fist bump a hug and a blush as you can see between these three new ones that Apple has just added and all the previous one that Apple's been continuing to add over time with even minor iOS updates it's really cool to see you'll be able to take and create your own character and then have all these different characters to send back and here you can see the actual me emoji or an emoji but everyone I call them faces are more expressive than ever they remapped a lot of the muscles to make them more responsive and more charismatic as you kind of move your face around so they're definitely more expressive than they have been in the past that really covers it those are all the new changes and features coming to iOS messages and well you guys know that these changes are not just here on iPhone we're seeing these over on iPad and even on the Mac the Mac has finally a much much much better messages app that includes all these features for the most part including the stickers are now there and you can send a message effects just a lot going on let me know what you guys think over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider tour in all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple Insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you laterwelcome everybody it is Andrew here from Apple Insider taking a look at messages within iOS 14 Apple has continued to push messages forward over the last few big OS releases and iOS 14 is no different with a huge pile of new features to check out starting with pin conversation pin conversations go right to the top of your messages making them easy to keep track of as usual even swipe to the left to mute or delete a conversation but now if you moved to the right you can pin that conversation up to nine conversations can be pin here at the top of the messages app if you look quickly at grouped messages now these group conversations are also radically different if we jump into this one with two people with Wes and Jessie I can actually go in and see all their photos but here I can change the name and the photo of this group conversation yes before you could add a group name but in this new interface you can not only add that group name but in emoji a photo and an emoji whatever you want to do to set for the kind of group logo in this case we're gonna go with maybe a guitar and we're gonna adjust the color to maybe there's light bluish gray that'll go ahead and set our group name in this case we're just gonna make it team AppleInsider the photo is the largest part there in the center with everyone else's faces around the outside and those that are most vocal or frequent in a group their photos will be larger around the outside if we go back you can also see how whether you're looking at a group conversation or a single conversation they'll actually have little speech bubbles coming out letting you know when somebody talked or who that person is if it's that group combo now moving back to that group combo because it really is a lot to talk about in these group conversations you can get messy fast and parts of conversations can get left behind but not with iOS 14 now we have a bunch of new features including mentions and inline replies so you can see a lot of that going on here in my conversation with West and Jesse about the new iOS 14 Vedas like here that message is actually replied to a really old message so have to scroll up quite a bit to see the original message keep going way up here towards the top boom this was sent by Jesse quite a while ago and I first replied he unless it replies because that kind of bubble and that arrow to go with it and then we had a whole conversation here back to that original message so you can really see kind of how they are all pulled together but sometimes that can still be confusing so you actually can tap in and views that entire nested reply chain just in one view makes it really easy to see all of those replies that one and not gonna confuse with the rest of the conversation of course these threaded replies aren't easy to do something to hold out on a message or in this case a picture and tap on reply it'll go ahead and let me reply directly to that message photo Jeff whatever it may be we can go ahead and put our comment our message our reply right there and tap send and now it's nested in there so if we go back to the main screen you'll see even though that sticker is way up there I have it small or grayed out there with my applied to it and I tap on that one apply it'll bring up that entire chain the entire threaded view of messages additionally you can mention people so you can do this just by typing their name and then tap it on the little bubble that appears so in this case I'm gonna reply back to West letting him know that I like the stickers and when it comes up I can tap on his name it says West Hillyard tap on that it lets you know with a little animation that he was tagged in there and sent and what that means is you'll actually get a notification that he was mentioned like right here I have the conversation muted but I still got an alert that Wes Hilliard mentioned me in my conversation with Jessie and him in here you can see even though it is on do not disturb I stole that notification icon there on the left hand side aside from all those changes to group conversations we are also seeing changes coming to Kenneth the an emoji or the meme og characters as well as the me emoji stickers mildly disappointing is we don't have any new an emoji characters so all the same characters that were here before are still here so there are no new an emoji characters but me emoji definitely got some improvements Apple continues to push the meme og character creation further making it more diverse and more emotive in the characters that you create there are several new hairstyles with the updated emoji including man bun top knot and a simple side part there have been minor changes across other various aspects of the meme og character creation just some small tweaks and a few little enhancements here in there but under head we actually updates to age now there are nine ages that you can go between from baby-faced a little bit older to anywhere in between so those are all new options now under head we have several new options for hairstyles there are actually 16 new sorry head styles head where they're actually sixteen new styles including cyclist helmet the nurse's cap swim cap there's the mortarboard graduation hat obviously there's a ton in here I don't even know all the names for them for face coverings those are new this year you can actually add face coverings and change the color of those masks who seems particularly relevant in these corona virus pandemic times and then we have three new meme og stickers on top of all those new customization options so these include fist bump a hug and a blush as you can see between these three new ones that Apple has just added and all the previous one that Apple's been continuing to add over time with even minor iOS updates it's really cool to see you'll be able to take and create your own character and then have all these different characters to send back and here you can see the actual me emoji or an emoji but everyone I call them faces are more expressive than ever they remapped a lot of the muscles to make them more responsive and more charismatic as you kind of move your face around so they're definitely more expressive than they have been in the past that really covers it those are all the new changes and features coming to iOS messages and well you guys know that these changes are not just here on iPhone we're seeing these over on iPad and even on the Mac the Mac has finally a much much much better messages app that includes all these features for the most part including the stickers are now there and you can send a message effects just a lot going on let me know what you guys think over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU hey everyone did you guys like that video be sure to click on that like button so we can create content that we know that you guys want to see and follow Apple Insider tour in all social media channels if you want the best prices on any Apple gear check out the Apple Insider price guide that is updated daily and until next time we'll see you later\n"