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tab, which you can copy, share, or save from within the
tab. Frustratingly, you can’t directly edit them using
Photos unless you save them to your hard drive, then
edit them with Photos.
Messages
In this context, ‘Messages’ is merely shorthand for
SMS/MMS text messages, not any specific app on
Android or anywhere else. As a result, it’s a bare-bones
summary of the text messages you and your contacts
have exchanged, nothing more. Most messaging
apps, including Skype, offer a ‘call’ option, and usually
a video-chat option as well. Messages does neither,
Messages displays both SMS and MMS
messages, though without the additional
calling options offered by native phone apps
90 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020
WINDOWS 10
tab, which you can copy, share, or save from within the
tab. Frustratingly, you can’t directly edit them using
Photos unless you save them to your hard drive, then
edit them with Photos.
Messages
In this context, ‘Messages’ is merely shorthand for
SMS/MMS text messages, not any specific app on
Android or anywhere else. As a result, it’s a bare-bones
summary of the text messages you and your contacts
have exchanged, nothing more. Most messaging
apps, including Skype, offer a ‘call’ option, and usually
a video-chat option as well. Messages does neither,
Messages displays both SMS and MMS
messages, though without the additional
calling options offered by native phone apps