{"id":22771,"date":"2012-02-16T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=22771"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:52:56","slug":"apple-releases-ichat-successor-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-releases-ichat-successor-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases iChat successor Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/apple-release-ichat-successor-messages\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22788 alignright\" title=\"Messages\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/imessages.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>Apart from releasing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/mountain-lion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">developer preview of OS X 10.8 &#8220;Mountain Lion&#8221;<\/a>, Apple has also released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/mountain-lion\/messages-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Messages<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the successor to iChat.<\/p>\n<p>If you install Messages, it replaces iChat although Apple has assured that iChat services will continue to work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a further move towards iOS, Messages provides better integration with  iMessage on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch running iOS 5. Some of the  benefits include unlimited iMessages to these devices, the ability to  start a conversation on your Mac and then continue it on your iOS device  and launch FaceTime video calls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22781\" title=\"Messages Beta\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/Messages-Beta-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/Messages-Beta-2.png 958w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/Messages-Beta-2-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also connect Messages to other chat protocols. It supports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aol-instant-messenger-aim.en.softonic.com\/mac\">AIM<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo-messenger.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Yahoo!<\/strong><\/a>, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll bring you a full review of Messages shortly but in the meantime you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/mountain-lion\/messages-beta\/\">download and try Messages for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apart from releasing a developer preview of OS X 10.8 &#8220;Mountain Lion&#8221;, Apple has also released Messages &#8211; the successor to iChat. If you install Messages, it replaces iChat although Apple has assured that iChat services will continue to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-22771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333922,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions\/333922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}