{"id":67627,"date":"2014-06-02T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67627"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:40","slug":"messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"iMessages for iOS 8 supports voice and video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple updated its <a title=\"iMessage news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/imessage\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iMessages<\/a> app for iOS 8 to include <strong>voice and video messaging<\/strong>. The move is undoubtedly due to the popularity of messaging apps like <a title=\"Snapchat for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/snapchat.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Voice and videos shows up in your chats, and you can even listen to messages from the lock screen. This makes the experience seamless, like answering a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Messages was also updated to deal with annoying group messages that keep buzzing your phone. You can set up &#8220;Do Not Distrub&#8221; for <strong>individual members<\/strong> of a chat instead of for your entire device. You can also leave a chat whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>MORE FROM WWDC 2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\">Everything you need to know about iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-announced-coming-fall-2014\">OS X Yosemite announced, coming fall 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-skewers-android-for-fragmentation\">Apple skewers Android for fragmentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spotlight-ios-8\">Spotlight suggestions come to iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\">Messages for iOS 8 supports voice and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/family-sharing-in-ios-lets-you-share-movies-music-and-apps\">Family Sharing in iOS lets you share movies, music and apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-working-on-photos-app-for-mac\">Apple working on Photos app for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/widgets-and-extensions-finally-come-to-ios-8\">Widgets and extensions finally come to iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple updated its iMessages app for iOS 8 to include voice and video messaging. The move is undoubtedly due to the popularity of messaging apps like Snapchat. Voice and videos shows up in your chats, and you can even listen to messages from the lock screen. This makes the experience seamless, like answering a phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iMessages for iOS 8 supports voice and video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330665,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627\/revisions\/330665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}