1. Open Messages. 2. Tap into a chat with a saved contact. 3. Tap either the person's or group's name near the top of the ...

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and update brought a new Liquid Glass redesign, call screening and lots of hidden features to your iPhone. The update also lets you add backgrounds to your chats in ...

The iOS 26 beta brings chat backgrounds to Messages, giving a visual identifier for each chat so you can easily tell if you're messaging the right person or group. It's a nice quality-of-life update ...

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With this new feature, you can make your own picture a background, use one of Apple's premade backgrounds and, if you have an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone, you can generate your own unique ...