iMessage has some great animations, and here are my favorites

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of their iPhone-carrying friends in the same group chats, ignoring that RCS now makes pretty much every group chat feel the same, whether green or blue. However, that only scratches the surface of what iMessage can do.

Once you move past the fact that you can react with emojis, cut stickers out of pictures, and send iMessage games back and forth in GamePigeon, you might realize that you can add animations to your messages, making iMessage much more fun. Now, Apple’s animations aren’t quite as secretive as those in Google Messages, but you can still do a lot to your text. Here’s what you need to know about iMessage animations.