How to send confetti on your iPhone for the Royal Wedding – all the special effects from balloons and fireworks to lasers
Apple introduced animated iMessage effects in 2016, but two years later many still do not know how to use them.
HERE’S a handy iPhone trick to spice up your messaging so you can celebrate the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle - now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Even though Apple introduced animated iMessage effects in 2016, many people still don't know how to use them...
How do you send effects on iMessage?
Here’s how to get in on the action.
First, open your Messages app and start typing then press and hold the blue arrow that shows up when you start drafting an iMessage.
There are two types of Message effects you can send with an iMessage: bubble effects and full-screen effects.
Bubble effects change the blue bubble that your iMessage is sent in while full-screen effects take up your entire screen.
A screen will pop up with four different "bubble" effects that you can send to your pals.
- Slam: Makes your message "slam" down onto the screen, causing everything in your conversation to shake
- Loud: Sends your message in a bubble that expands and shakes before shrinking to normal size;
- Gentle: Shrinks your message down to a tiny size before slowly changing back to its normal;
- Invisible Ink: Covers messages with a blurry screen that you have to tap or swipe to reveal what's underneath.
What other effects can you send on your phone?
To see the other type of animation you can send, tap the icon "Screen" at the top of the phone.
- Echo: Floods the screen with copies of the message which swirl for a few seconds;
- Spotlight: Temporarily highlights your message with a spotlight;
- Balloons: Sends your message with a bunch of balloons;
- Confetti: Sends your message with a burst of confetti that cascades down the screen;
- Love: Sends your message with a giant red heart;
- Lasers: Makes your message look like its shooting lasers across the screen;
- Fireworks: Turns your screen dark and displays several fireworks
- Shooting star: Turns your screen dark and shows a shooting star;
Celebration: Turns your screen dark and sends a burst of bright gold sparks
In case you miss the effect the first time, you can also tap "Replay" to see an effect again.
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If you can't get any of these effects, check your iPhone's settings It's possible you may have disabled auto-play for Message effects and you can check by going too Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
If you have "Reduce Motion" enabled on your phone, then you'll also see a feature labeled "Auto-play Message."
Tap the slider next to these words to start automatically playing Message effects on your iPhone.
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