Reply to a message with an Inline Reply

In this video, we’re going to look at inline replies with the iPad’s messages app. This feature was introduced with iPadOS 14. Let’s go to my iPad. Let’s go and open up my Messages app. When we use inline replies, what we’re able to do is isolate the messages between two people. Even if it’s in a conversation with more than two people, I have this conversation here as an example. There are four people in this conversation. When I go over to the right, I can see all of the messages within this conversation, but if we look here, you’re going to see I have a message here, where it has three replies. This is an inline reply. When I tap on this, what’s going to happen is it will isolate only the messages between these two people. Remember, this conversation has four people on it, but when I tap on this. I can only see the messages between these two people within my group conversation.

That’s what an inline reply is. It hides all of the other messages from all of the other people in that conversation, so I can easily see my conversation with this person by using inline replies. It’s going to hide everything else. To show everything again. All I have to do is tap anywhere, and now I can see all of the conversation. Again, I can see all of the messages from everyone in this conversation.

So how do we do this? Well, it’s pretty easy. All we have to do is go to our conversation here. So we can see that I asked Beth for lunch. She came back with ‘how about tomorrow.’ To reply with an inline reply, all I have to do is tap and hold on this. We get a pop-up menu, and you’re going to see reply. This is how I create an inline reply. So now, when I tap on this, I type in ‘sure.’ And then all I have to do is hit send, and we can see I’m going to hide the keyboard here. We can see that we’re only looking at those two messages. Remember, this is a group conversation. There are more messages than these two messages here, but being that I use inline reply, I can view just those messages to view all of the messages. Again, I tap anywhere, and now I can view all of the messages again to isolate those messages within those inline replies. I tap on the message. And now I’m looking at just those two messages, tap on it again to view all. I want to view all of the messages here within that inline reply; tap on it. And now I’m just viewing those four messages, tap anywhere to get out. And I’m back in my group conversation.

So that’s how we use inline replies in the Messages app on the iPad. When we use an inline reply, we’re able to isolate the messages between two people within a group conversation. To reply with an inline reply. You tap and hold on the message itself. You’ll see a pop-up menu and then tap on reply. When you do that, you’ll be creating an inline reply. Your recipient will be able to isolate that message or the messages between you and them within a group conversation. So that’s how you create inline replies in the Messages app on the iPad.