From the course: iOS 13 and iPadOS: iPhone and iPad Essential Training

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Text with iMessage

Text with iMessage

From the course: iOS 13 and iPadOS: iPhone and iPad Essential Training

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Text with iMessage

- [Narrator] Now let's look at text messaging. At this point in time, I think anyone with a smart phone knows what texting is, but briefly, the idea behind texting is that it's an immediate communication, in the sense that a phone call is also immediate. But it's also less formal than sending an email to someone. Now in iOS devices, when you're texting with friends who are also on iOS devices, whether it's the iPhone or iPad, or even the iPod Touch, you're actually using a messaging system called iMessage. iMessage works just like text messaging, except unlike regular text messages, iMessages are free, so you can send as many message back and forth between you and your friends on iOS devices, all without being charged by your wireless carrier. An iMessage also works over both cell networks and Wifi networks, so you can text to and from non-cellular devices like the iPad and iPod Touch. Now if you're on an iPhone,…

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