Summary

Text messaging is a common way to communicate quickly and easily with anyone with a mobile phone. While you can always share your thoughts and ideas as text, don't feel limited to just typing. Consider sending pictures, audio, or even digital cash through Apple Pay.

Text messaging is meant to help you stay in touch with important people or information, so consider hiding alerts if certain text messaging conversations alert you too often. Periodically, go through your text messaging conversations and delete the ones you no longer need so that you can focus attention on those conversations you currently want and need right now.

Text messaging can be a great way to communicate with others, but in the next chapter, you'll learn how to talk to Siri, Apple's voice assistant, who can answer questions and help you search the internet without you having to type anything at all.