Apple is tipped to add a new text effects feature that could format words that you are texting.
You know how, when you text another iPhone user the word « Congratulations, » both you and the recipient see confetti fall from the top of the screen? Text « Happy Birthday » to another iPhone user and balloons float up from the bottom of the screen. Because any messaging between iOS users and Android users, at least until later this year, is done via SMS, Android users don’t see these effects. Once iOS supports RCS, we could see the Google Messages app show these effects to Android users.
Now, according to unnamed multiple sources cited by MacRumors, Apple is working on a new feature for iOS 18 that will create effects with the actual texted word instead of an image that represents what the word means.
