iMessage May Soon Get These 5 Cool New Features

Apple’s instant messaging platform is already pretty well ahead of the curve compared to the messaging apps that come built-in on competing smartphone platforms, but there’s always room for improvement and it looks like Apple’s not planning on sitting on its laurels.

Last year Apple introduced the ability to set a name and profile photo to share with your iMessage contacts, which certainly seemed like a step in the direction of a more chat-like messaging system, and now a new report from MacRumors reveals that Apple is already testing several new features for iMessage that could arrive in iOS 14, although the development of at least some of these features seems to be independent of iOS (and macOS) meaning that they could be pushed off to a later date, or they could find their way into a point release of iOS 13 even sooner. Read on for some of the cool new iMessage features that Apple is working on.