Chapter 7 : Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging 97
The Synergy feature enables the Messaging app to gather all your text,
multimedia, and instant messages to and from the same contact into a
single conversation (sometimes called a “thread”). So you can see your
entire message history with someone regardless of the different methods
you happened to use to communicate with that person (see Work with
conversations). You can even switch from account to account without losing
the thread of your conversation (see Switch between messaging accounts in
a conversation)—just pick the messaging account that’s most likely to keep
you in unbroken contact with the person you’re talking to.
Work with conversations
When you exchange more than one message with a person, the messages
are grouped into a conversation. A single conversation can contain text,
multimedia, and IM messages. When you start or continue a conversation,
the upper part of Conversation view displays all messages you’ve exchanged
with this person, and the bottom part provides the area where you type your
next message.
You can carry on multiple conversations at the same time.
1 Open Messaging .
2 Do one of the following:
• Start a new conversation: Create a message (see Create and send a
text or multimedia message or Send and receive IM messages), or
tap a message and reply to it.
• Continue an existing conversation: Tap the conversation.
3 Enter your message.
4 Tap .
Switch between messaging accounts in a conversation
In a single conversation, you can switch between text/multimedia
messaging and an IM account. So if you are having an IM chat with
someone and he or she goes offline, you can send the person a text message
to wrap up the conversation. You can also switch between different phone
numbers for sending a text message to a person.
1 In Messaging, start a new conversation or open one that’s listed in
Conversations view.
2 Ta p Te x t or an IM account name in the upper-right corner of the
screen. If available, the other ways to communicate with this contact
appear in a list. Tap the account or phone number you want to use.
TIP You can copy the contents of a conversation as plain text, which you can
paste in a memo, email message, and so on (see Copy messages).
TIP To be able to switch between text messaging and IM messaging with
someone, that person’s mobile phone number and IM address must be in the same
single contact or a linked contact. If the address and number are in different
unlinked contacts, link them (see Link a contact).
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