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• Text your best friend: Use a widget to text your favorite 
contact quickly. Touch and hold an empty spot on the 
home screen, tap 
WIDGETS
, touch and hold 
Direct 
message
 to drag it to your home screen, then select the 
contact.
• Message alert: To show new message notifications in the 
status bar, tap   
Message+
 >   > 
Settings
, and check 
Notifications
.
Read, forward & more
Find it:   
Message+
• Open: Tap a conversation to open it.
• Attachments: When you open a message with an 
attachment, tap the attachment to open it, or touch and 
hold it to save it.
• Reply: Open a conversation, then enter your response in 
the text box at the bottom.
•Forward: Open a conversation, touch and hold the 
message you want, then tap 
Forward Message
.
• Delete: Touch and hold a conversation, then tap 
Delete 
Conversation
. Or, open the conversation, touch and hold 
one message, then tap 
Delete messages
.
• Settings: Tap   at the top left, then tap 
Settings
 to 
change your notifications and other options.
Set your default messaging app
You can use Verizon Message+, Messaging, or Google 
Hangouts™ to send and receive your text messages.
To set   
Message+
,  
Messaging
, or   
Hangouts
 as your 
default messaging app:
Find it: Apps  >  
Settings
 > 
Apps
 >   
Message+
, or 
 
Messaging
, or   
Hangouts
, then 
Open by default
For more about Google Hangouts, see “Chat using Google 
Hangouts™” on page 35.
Gmail
Send and receive email from all of your personal accounts 
(even if they’re not Google Gmail accounts). You can manage 
your accounts in Gmail and easily switch between them.
Find it: Apps  >  
Gmail