- The Text Effects feature in iOS 18 lets you apply animated effects to individual letters, words, phrases, or emojis.
- Open the Messages app, type your message, select a word or phrase, and choose the Text Effects option.
- You get to choose from eight text animation options, including Big, Small, Shake, Nod, Explode, Ripple, Bloom, and Jitter.
Apple’s iOS 18 brings a plethora of new additions, including new features and improvements to the Messages app. This year, the Messages app gets a much-needed update with iMessage scheduling, Tapbacks, Formatting options, and all new Text Effects. Until now, you could send balloons and fireworks to your messages, but now you can make your words shake, explode, or bloom with the text effects on iOS 18. Already excited? Let me show you how to use Text Effects in iOS 18 on iPhone.
Use Text Effects Feature in iOS 18
With the new Text Effects feature in iOS 18, you can apply dynamic, animated effects to individual words, phrases, or emojis. At present, you get to choose from eight text animation options, including Big, Small, Shake, Nod, Explode, Ripple, Bloom, and Jitter. Unlike iOS 17’s Check-In and iOS 18’s Send Later features, Text Effects isn’t a separate app. You can apply effects to text in iOS after you’ve typed a message but haven’t sent it yet. Here’s how to use iOS 18 text effects:
- Make sure you’ve installed iOS 18 on your iPhone.
- Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
- Now, head to an existing conversation or start a new one.
- Type the message you wish to send.
- Now, select the individual word, phrase, or entire text to which you want to apply a text effect.
- Tap on the Text Effects option. You may have to tap on the arrow to move through the options.
- This will bring an iOS pop-up with formatting options (bold, italics, and strikethrough) and eight animated effects to choose from. Along with the name, they also show the text effect applied to that name.
- Tap on the animated effect and it will be applied to the highlighted text in your message.
- If you like that effect, you can tap on the Send button. If not, you can try other effects.
- That’s it! You’ve applied special effects to iPhone messages.
At the moment, you can add text effects to iMessage in iOS 18. Since the latest iOS brings RCS support to iPhones, the text effects feature might also be supported for Android users.
Do you like the new Text Effects in iOS 18? Out of all the new features, which one did you like the most? Don’t forget to drop your views in the comments below.
