Apple today previewed iOS 18 with several new features for the Messages app, including text effects, emoji Tapbacks, and more.
iMessage finally has bold, italic, underline, and strikeout options, along with all-new text effects that let you animate individual words in a message.
Apple has redesigned Tapback icons like the heart, thumbs up, and exclamation marks to be more colorful on iOS 18, and the Tapback system now works with any emoji, too.
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