The apps Mes saging
Notii cations, signatures and spam
There are other settings you can make to help you get more from
your messages. On the main Messaging screen tap the Menu
button beneath the screen and then select Settings. Then scroll
down the screen to see the full range of settings available (Fig 3).
You can request a delivery r eport so you can be absolutely certain
your message has arrived at the other end, and you can even get a
notii cation when the message has been opened by the recipient.
You can also make a range of settings to no tify when you have
received an SMS, including repeating incoming message alerts,
setting a ringtone notii cation and getting a preview of a message
on the notii cations bar at the top of your device’ s screen. That’s
useful if you don’t want to go into the Messaging app to get the
Composing
a message
Y ou’ve got 160
characters for
each message,
and you can see a
countdown here
Predictive text
It can be faster to tap the
word you want when it
appears here rather than
type the whole thing
Tools
Access tools like
handwriting and speech
recognition here
Recipients
All your recipients are
listed in this area at the
top of the screen
Fig 3 (above) You can make sophisticated
settings for managing t ext messages and
tailoring the app t o suit your needs