You can use the Messages app to send text messages, images, and much more. You can reply within a conversation or to specific comments in a thread. You can even use Siri to listen and respond to your messages.
The rest of the settings determine things like if read receipts are for on every iMessage conversation, whether or not you want text messages (those green bubbles) forwarded to your other Apple devices or kept on your iPhone, how long you want to keep messages on your device, and so on. Take a few minutes, go through each option, and decide how you want Messages to behave.
Having a constant backup of your iMessage conversations that syncs across all of your Apple devices is another one of my favorite benefits of Apple's messaging platform. Apple uses iCloud to back up and sync your Messages conversations (that includes text messages, too).
It's easy enough to send and receive messages in the Messages app, and telling apart iMessages from text messages is easy as well -- if the messages you send are green, it's a text message. If the bubble is blue, you're talking to a fellow iMessage user.
Also, make sure you take advantage of the search feature, as well. You can search the Messages app for photos, links, documents, locations, collaborations and text within a conversation. Just open the Messages app and tap on the search bar at the top.
I am looking to see how to do this or if even Zoom supports this. I am inquiring because we want to capture SMS texts on user's iPhones (we will have iMessage disabled). This is for archiving SMS texts for compliance reasons.
Thanks for the additional context @Tamara_vd! I have now escalated this to our Development Team so they can investigate further and I will circle back on this thread once they provide an update thanks!
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