Submitted by Jon Reed on
If Messages is your goto text messaging app, then you are likely aware of "tapback responses" - the thumbs up/down, heart, "haha", exclamations and question mark stickers that you can respond to messages with. In addition to these stickers, you can respond to messages with Memoji stickers as well. Here's how to do it on iPhone and iPad:
The iPhone offers a variety of ways to spice up your messages, such as the ability to add animated screen effects and Stickers. You can also respond to text messages with effects that include a heart, thumbs up/down, haha, exclamation point and question mark. You can attach any of these message icons to a text bubble in the iOS Messages app. Here's how:
Apple introduced full screen animations in the messages app with the release of iOS 10. iPhone users can send other iOS users nine different animations such as balloons, confetti and fireworks through the Messages app. These animations can be individually selected and attached to any text message, or automatically triggered by typing key phrases. Apple hasn't released an official list of what phrases invoke what screen effects, but they did demo the Happy Birthday feature at WWDC 2016.
