The apps Messaging
Messaging
Get to grips with messaging on your Galaxy
Texting friends
and family
Texting is one of the most
popular uses of any phone
and your Galaxy has texting
down to a fi ne art. It’s
easy to take advantage of
its simple and accessible
interface to keep in touch
with all your family and
friends (Fig 1).Send a text message
Texting is about a lot
more than just creating
and sending messages.
Suppose someone sends
you a website address in a
text message – it becomes
a live link and you can
tap it to go straight to the
site. Alternatively, if someone texts you a phone number then just
tapping it will bring up a menu from which you can call them or
add them to your contacts (Fig 2).
There’s another potentially useful item on that menu too: copy
message text. Imagine you want to take a bit of an SMS and put it
into an email, or even send text from one SMS to a new recipient –
with this command you can copy the text and then paste it straight
into any other app that supports text.
SMS messages are ‘threaded’, meaning that you can see a
conversational view between you and the person you are chatting
to. You might not always want to keep every message, though, and
if you long-press on any particular message you can delete it. YouText people
Send and receive text messages
Share images
Attach pictures to MMS messages
Dictate messages
Save time and keep your hands free
Stay organised
Manage spam messages
Reply with templates
Send short pre-written messages
Customise alerts
Set your own message notifications
You’ll use it to...
Fig 2 (above) Tap on a phone number
inside a text message to either call the
sender or add them as a contact
Fig 1 (right) Messaging provides you with
threaded conversations so that you don’t
have to keep digging through old texts