Here's how to change a chat background in Messages on iOS 26, and what you need to know about the feature. 1. Open Messages.

With this new feature, you can make your own picture a background, use one of Apple's premade backgrounds and, if you have an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone, you can generate your own unique ...

Google is rolling out a background wallpaper for RCS chats in Messages to help distinguish them from SMS/MMS conversations. The Google Messages background for RCS consists of overlapping ...

Apple has slowly been ramping up the number of ways you can personalize the look of your iPhone, and in iOS 26 that customization treatment makes its way into the Messages app. Once you download the ...

A background image can set a tone for the conversation. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Accidentally texting the wrong person can bring disastrous consequences, and yet it’s incredibly simple to ...

The Messages app has the Liquid Glass redesign that's been introduced throughout iOS 26, but Apple also added several long-desired features that make for a better experience in both one-to-one and ...

The “Conversations” widget that Google introduced with Android 12 Beta 2 last week has an interesting hidden property. It can change the background depending on the content of the message, the folks ...