Replying in Group Messages

In this video, we’re going to look at how you can reply to a message or a specific person in a group message in the iPhone’s Messages app. This was introduced with iOS 14. Let’s take a look at reply in the Messages app. Let’s go to my iPhone.

Let’s go and open up my Messages app. So I’m looking at this conversation here. This conversation involves more than two people. It’s a group conversation. When you’re in a group conversation, what you can now do is reply to a specific message. When you reply to a specific message, what you’re able to do, and the person replying to, what they are able to do is isolate your conversation between you and them. It’s going to hide all of the other messages in that group conversation. I’m going to swipe up here. You’re going to see that I have this message here, and it says three replies underneath it. When I tap on this, what it’s going to do is it’s going to isolate that conversation between these two people. This is what reply does. It hides all of the other messages in that conversation.

So, how do I reply to a specific person while I’m in a group conversation? Well, it’s pretty easy. All you have to do is just go over to the message you want to reply to. So let’s take a look at this message here. If I want to reply to this, all I do is just tap and hold on it, and then you’re going to see reply. When I tap on reply, you can see it isolates that message out of that group conversation, and then what I can do is I can type my reply. So let’s type in, not so far, and when I tap on the reply button here or the send button, I should say, when I tap on this, it’s going to send that as a reply. So now the person I just sent this to will be able to isolate these two messages within the group conversation.

If you want to see all of the messages in the conversation from everyone in that group conversation, you just tap outside here, and now I’m looking at the entire conversation again. I want to isolate that reply; I just want to see the messages between that person and myself, I tap on this, and now we can see the replies. If they were to reply to this, it would show up in this isolated conversation.

So that’s how we can reply to a message in a group conversation in the Messages app on the iPhone. When we reply to a message within a group conversation, we’re able to isolate those messages within that conversation. So then we can only see those messages. We’re not going to see the entire conversation between everyone in that conversation. To reply to an individual message within a conversation, you just tap and hold on it, you’ll see a dropdown menu or popup menu, tap on reply, and then, and they’re able to reply to that specific message. Once you create a reply, you’ll see reply underneath the message, tap on that, and you’ll be able to isolate that message again. Tap anywhere outside to view the entire conversation, the entire group conversation again.

So that’s how you reply to a message in the Messages app on the iPhone.