How to Use BOLD Text in iPhone Messages

Want to be BOLD in your iPhone text Messages?

There's a Cool Tip to make it happen.

But you need to go Old School mobile phone.

By default, iPhone Messages does not show a Subject field for text messages. 

However, you can change this setting in the Messages app.

The Subject line will be the first line of your message and it will be BOLD.

To change the setting for subject fields in iPhone Messages, follow these steps:

• Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
• Tap Messages.
• Scroll down and tap Show Subject Field.
• Toggle the switch to On.

fig. 1 - Change Message Setting
to Show Subject Field

Once you have turned on the setting for subject fields, you will be able to enter a subject line when you send a new text message and it will appear BOLD.

fig. 2 Bold Subject Line Message

Enjoy! 

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How to Send an Email as a Text to a Cell Phone

Did you know you can send an email to a cell phone as a text?

Maybe you're at your PC and just want to send a quick text without retyping on your phone.

To send an email as a text, you'll need to know the phone number of the recipient and which mobile carrier is used.  For example, AT&T, Verizon or Sprint.

Listed below are the formats for each major carrier.

As an example, to send an email as a text to an AT&T recipient, you'd address your email to the 10DigitPhoneNumber@txt.att.net.  It would look like this 1234567890@txt.att.net  Of course, replace the 10 digit phone number with the phone number of your recipient.

Alltel

PlainText:  10DigitPhoneNumber@message.alltel.com

Picture or Video: 10DigitPhoneNumber@sms.alltel.com

AT&T

Plain Text: 10DigitPhoneNumber@txt.att.net

Picture or Video: 10DigitPhoneNumber@mms.att.net

Boost Mobile

10DigitPhoneNumber@myboostmobile.com

Sprint

10DigitPhoneNumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile

No longer supported by T-Mobile but may work with some subscribers:

10DigitPhoneNumber@tmomail.net

US Cellular

10DigitPhoneNumber@email.uscc.net

Verizon

10DigitPhoneNumber@vtext.com

Virgin Mobile

10DigitPhoneNumber@vmobl.com

This tried and true method still works.  Tho it is quickly being replaced by dedicated chat and messaging apps such as SnapChat, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp that bypass the carriers texting service all together.

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How to Fix the iPhone Text Message Reset Error

If you haven't heard, pranksters have learned that sending a specific string of text as a message to an iPhone will freeze and reset the iPhone.

How fun.

We won't share the offending text here.  But it's easily found. 

So what's the fix?

According to Apple, if you encounter this unfriendly text message and your iPhone has gone bonkers, here's the fix:

• Ask Siri to "read unread messages."
• Use Siri to reply to the malicious message.  After you reply, you'll be able to open Messages again.
• If the issue continues, tap and hold the malicious message, tap More and delete the message from the thread.

Apple also says that there will be a more permanent solution in a future update.  Yay.

So why does this text have such magical properties to be able to reset an iPhone?  The answer is a bit complicated but it relates to the numerical coding behind each text letter.  Some foreign text, in a specific string, can cause SpringBoard, the application that handles the main iPhone screen, to reset. 

Fortunately, this text message error only results in a minor annoyance.  But Apple and other smartphone makes should expand their efforts to ensure that their devices and operating systems are not vulnerable to these errors and much worse attacks.

Source: Apple

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