What Does Emphasize Mean On iPhone While Texting?

What Does Emphasize Mean On iPhone While Texting

Using an iPhone to text to your friend who also happens to be iPhone user is always fun. Apple's delicate iMessage platform provides various fun functions that you can use to make your chats a lively time for you. With one such function called 'Emphasized' and how it can be used to draw the attention to a particular text message.

However, keep in mind that like most of the things brought to life by Apple this feature is also limited to the iPhone's utopia, meaning you need to have the Apple device for things to work.

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Emphasized texts on iPhone are emotes used to draw attention towards texts. Although, it should be noted that they only work on iOS devices. You can't see them on Android.

How To Emphasize Text On iPhone?

If you want to use Emphasized feature for your texting escapade then you need to know what it is in first place. Well, emphasize function of iPhone is very much like how reactions work on Facebook, you want to leave your digital footprint on a post, you click on the button and emotes pop-up.

Then how you choose to react to it, you can pick any one of those emotions for it. So in principles this is how it works for iPhone too. You want to emphasize a message while chatting tap on it for 2-3 seconds which will bring up a slate of emotions (or whatever you like to call it) and from there you can choose the most appropriate choice.

Keep in mind you can only choose from these six options, and if you like to know more about these six options then keep reading.

Six Options To Emphasize A Message On iPhone?

In total you will get six emotes to emphasize your message on iPhone. Down below we’ve listed them with their meaning and how you can use them. Or not use them given the situation.

  • Heart ❤️: The heart emoji represents love, affection, and deep emotions. It’s often used to express romantic feelings, but it can also convey appreciation, gratitude, or general affection for someone or something.
  • Thumbs Up 👍: The thumbs-up emoji is a positive gesture that signifies approval, agreement, or support. It’s commonly used to show that you like or endorse something, or simply to acknowledge a message.
  • Thumbs Down 👎: The thumbs-down emoji, conversely, expresses disapproval, disagreement, or dissatisfaction with something. It’s used to signal that you don’t like or disagree with a message or situation.
  • HAHA 😂: The “HAHA” emoji is a laughing face with tears of joy. It’s used to indicate that something is funny or that you’re laughing heartily at a joke or amusing situation.
  • Exclamation Mark ❗️: The exclamation mark emoji emphasizes excitement, surprise, urgency, or emphasis. It’s often used to highlight a point or to convey a sense of enthusiasm or astonishment.
  • Question Mark ❓: The question mark emoji is used to indicate a question, query, or uncertainty. It’s placed at the end of a sentence to signal that you’re asking a question or seeking clarification.

Does Emphasized Texts Works On Androids?

As we mentioned above in the passing it is vital that you have the iPhone to see the emphasized message. Meaning if you have the Android phone and your friend is chatting with you on their iPhone and they decide to emphasize a text then you won’t be able to see the graphic. Instead you will receive the same text with the words that it was intended to be emphasized by them.

“Is There Any Way Around It?”

– Someone could ask

Sadly, there is no way we can change this, it’s only truth that we’ve to tolerate it. Although, if someday Apple decides to act right then perhaps there is a chance that you might see on which of your text has your friend reacted, for now its just an unattainable dream.

Use Effects On Your iMessage While Texting!

So there is more than just emphasized texts that you can do while using the iPhone and by extension iMessages. There is also effects that you can try while chatting with your friends. For instance if you want your messages to take up the complete screen or you want to see a heart coming out of your message like its a zombie from Walking Dead then all you need to do is this and you will get access to this hidden gem:

Before sending your message tap on the send button for like 2-3 seconds before removing your finger. This will make sure that effects screen pops up for you and then you can choose either bubbles or screen to add the effects you want.

Frequently Asked Questions

Senders wants your attention on it.

Umm heart emote on your text probably means they loved it.

To draw attention.

That sender and reader are trying to spice up the chat(not like that).

Ezhan Javed

CMO At Chronoat

“What am I if not the words I write?” is something I’ve asked myself quite often. So, I feel it is my duty being CMO at Chronoat to not only write to inform but inspire.

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