Everything New in the iOS 15 Messages App: Shared With You, Photo Collages, Memoji Updates and More

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9. July 2021

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Apple’s FaceTime app was the main focus for many of the iOS 15 updates that were introduced, but the Messages app wasn’t entirely forgotten. Apple introduced a new Shared with You feature and streamlined several interface elements to make the Messages experience more pleasant.

This guide outlines all of the new features that Apple added to the Messages app in ‌iOS 15‌ and iPadOS 15.

The main new feature in the ‌iOS 15‌ Messages app is Shared with You, which aggregates content that people share with you in Messages into the proper apps. So if someone sends a photo, it shows up in a Shared with You section in the Photos app.

This isn’t strictly a Messages addition because it’s actually other apps that have this new section, but it does make Messages content much more accessible and less likely to be forgotten. There are multiple Shared with You integrations, as outlined below.

Photos – When someone sends you a photo in Messages, it automatically appears in the Shared with You section of the ‌Photos‌ app, which is located in “For You.” Tapping on an image lets you save it to the photo library, and it has a record of who sent it. If you tap on the name of the person that sent it, it automatically opens up the Messages app so you can have a conversation.Safari – Any link sent to you in Safari is stored in the Shared with You section of the main start page that’s opened when you open up a new tab. Safari shows a preview of the link so you can see what it’s about, and tapping the link opens up the website.Apple News – A link to an Apple News story that’s sent to you will be stored in the Shared w

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