How to Send a Handwritten Message on iPhone or iPad
Sometimes, writing is easier than typing, especially on the tiny keyboards on an iPhone. Fortunately, Apple has a feature that allows you to handwrite a quick message in iMessages. The thing is, you’d probably never find it if you didn’t know where to look. A fun feature of messages made using the Sketch option in iMessages is that they play like a GIF when they are delivered. So, instead of just showing up as a handwritten message, they show up animated, so the recipient sees how you drew them. Unfortunately, when you use Sketch, you can’t convert the handwritten message to text, so if your handwriting is terrible, that’s what the recipient will see.
How to Send a Digital Touch Message in iMessages
The sketch method used above is one way to send a handwritten message or a quick drawing, but there’s another way to do it, too, and it doesn’t require you to turn the phone landscape to access it.
How to Send a Tap or Heartbeat Drawing in iMessage
Another fun type of message that you can send in iMessage is a heartbeat drawing or Tap Messages. You use the same steps as above to get into the Digital Touch messaging feature, and then you can do a few different things:
Tap With One Finger: This creates a ’tap’ which is essentially a round burst of color on the canvas. The color you have selected in the color picker will determine the color of the tap.Tap and Hold With One Finger: This sends a ‘Fireball,’ an extended burst of color. It will always have the color of a fireball.Tap With Two Fingers: This sends a ‘kiss’ that looks like a neon pair of lips. You can tap a couple of times on the screen to send multiple kisses before the message automatically sends.Touch and Hold With Two Fingers: This sends a heartbeat that lasts as long as you keep your fingers on the screen. The heartbeat will always be colored a red pink.Touch and Hold With Two Fingers, Then Drag Down This creates a broken heart colored a darker red.
How to Add Digital Touch Effects to Images and Videos
Digital Touch effects can be used for more than just iMessages, too. You can also add them to videos and pictures. If you’re taking a picture, once you capture the picture, use the Digital Touch gestures to add an effect to the image.
