Utilize iMessage apps on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With iMessage apps, y'all tin can collaborate with others in a chat, decorate letters with stickers, share a song, and more — without leaving Letters.

iPhone showing how to find iMessage apps

Observe iMessage apps in the app drawer

The app drawer gives you quick admission to apps that yous tin employ in your letters. To see your app drawer:

  1. Open Messages.
  2. Tap the Compose push buttonCompose a message to get-go a new bulletin. Or go to an existing conversation.
  3. Swipe left or correct over the app drawer to find the app that yous want to utilize.

Here are some apps that are automatically in your app drawer:

Store: Download iMessage apps to use with Messages.

Photos: Quickly add photos to your letters right from the app.

Music: Share recently played songs from Apple Music.

Digital Touch: Utilise Digital Impact to send sketches, taps, kisses, heartbeats, and more.

#images*: Observe hundreds of trending GIFs to add to your messages.

Apple tree Greenbacks: Send and receive money with people you know.*

iPhone showing how to download iMessage apps

Download iMessage apps

You can find and download apps to use with iMessage in the App Shop for iMessage. Here's how:

  1. To go to the App Store for iMessage, tap the Store iconapp store icon.
  2. Tap theget icon icon or the price icon adjacent to the app, then tap Install. Yous might need to enter your Apple ID countersign to complete the purchase.
  3. Tap the gray line or the Close button  to render to your message.

After the app downloads, yous can find it in your app drawer.

Some apps permit you brand additional purchases within the app. If you lot ready Family Sharing, y'all can utilise Ask to Purchase to help control app downloads and in-app purchases. Larn more virtually in-app purchases.

iPhone showing how to remove or add iMessage apps

Manage iMessage apps

You can add apps to your Favorites so y'all have quick access to them in the app drawer. Y'all can also reorder apps in the app drawer, remove the ones y'all don't desire, and more than. Here'due south how:

  1. From the app drawer, swipe left and tap the More buttonmore icon.
  2. Tap Edit in the upper-left corner to exercise the following:
  3. Tap Done.

iPhone showing how to delete iMessage apps

Delete iMessage apps

Practice more than with iMessage

Employ the App Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch on, Apple TV, or computer to download apps.

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