102 Chapter 7 : Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging
1 Open Messaging .
2 Tap a conversation.
3 Do one of the following:
• To copy the entire conversation: Open the application menu, tap
Edit, and tap Copy All.
• To copy a single message: Tap the message and tap Copy Text.
View a contact’s information from a message
• In a conversation, tap the header of a message received from a contact to
open the contact entry.
Dial a number from a message
• Tap a phone number and tap .
Delete a message
1 In a conversation, throw the message off the side of the screen.
2 Ta p Delete to confirm.
Delete a conversation
1 In Conversations view, throw the conversation off the side of the
screen.
2 Ta p Delete to confirm.
Block a message sender
You can block a person from contacting you by SMS, MMS, or IM if you
don’t want to receive any further messages from them.
You cannot, however, block a person if they are on your IM buddy list. To
block an IM buddy you first need to delete them from your buddies list (see
Delete a buddy).
1 Open Messaging .
2 Tap a conversation with the person you want to block.
3 Open the application menu and tap Block This Person.
4 Ta p Block.
Turn automatic download of multimedia messages on or off
By default, MMS messages are downloaded automatically. You can change
the option so that you can decide whether to download a multimedia
message.
1 Open Messaging .
2 Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts.
3 In Auto-Download MMS, tap On or Off.
Turn delivery receipts on/off
When the delivery receipts preference is turned on, the background color of
messages you send to other Verizon Wireless phones changes to show the
transition from sending (light gray) to sent (dark gray) to delivered (green).
When a message is displayed with a green background, you can tap it to see
the delivery confirmation, showing the delivery time and date.