Pixel 8 How to Send Text Messages

okay let's move on now to how to send and receive text messages so at the bottom of your screen you'll see this little icon this is your messages icon you're going to tap on that and anytime someone sends you a text message it will show up in this section I have a couple of old messages that are already in the phone here um I'm going to just tap on this first one and here I can see the different messages that have come through super easy there I'm going to use my back button to jump out of the message and go back to the main screen of the messages app now if I want to send a message or really quickly you'll notice that some of the messages are in normal text and summer and bold whenever you see bold that means that it is a message that has not been opened yet so this is a way to distinguish between new messages and older messages that you've already seen now in the bottom right corner you'll see a button that says start chat and this is how you start a new message so if I want to text someone I can either enter their name if I've already saved their contact in the phone or I can tap in the bottom left corner of my keyboard here on the one two three that's going to bring up my numbers and I can enter the phone number that I'd like to send the message to and let's just enter this phone number here and now that I've put the whole number in I can tap send to and that number and it will add that number in and it'll start a message for that person now um it's already going to T my message so where it says text message you'll see a little flashing cursor and I can simply start typing my message Hi how are you and then I can use this button this is your send button that's going to send that message now one thing you'll notice right um on this uh message line You'll have an emoji button and you can tap to enter an emoji to send to someone and then hit your send button you'll also see a little microphone right here if you hold down this microphone and then you talk it will begin to record a voice message that you can send through text so so I just that uh few seconds of me talking it's going to seal it into a voice uh memo I can play it before I send it and then you talk it will begin to record a voice message now if I hit send it's going to send that person that little voice message and they can tap and just listen to it sometimes it's easier to communicate by sending someone a voice message than typing out a full message you have another option as well on your keyboard you will see this microphone which is different when you tap on that microphone it's going to type whatever you say kind of like what I showed you in the Play Store it's like that you tap the microphone you say what you wanted to type and then we'll add it into the message just like this good morning Cheryl I hope you have a great day today give me a call when you have a minute thank you when you're done simply tap on the microphone so it'll stop listening it uh grabbed a few extra words so I'm just going to remove those words like that and then I'm going to tap on this little arrow to send that message so those are a few different ways you can interact with a text message now there is a plus to the left here to the left of the message and here you can attach different things to your message so so you can uh tap the gallery button to then uh find a picture that you would like to attach let's grab a good picture I have a couple of good ones in here so let's say I want to attach this picture I'm just going to tap on it I'm going to tap this awesome burger and then I'm going to tap my sim button right here and that's going to send those two pictures in the message so that's one way to send a picture if I hit that plus I can also tap on gifts and then I can look through and find one of those cool um funny gifts to attach as well I'm going to tap on this one and then hit the send button again and now I just sent a funny gift in response to uh the person's message so these are just ways you'll attach different things uh and send them via text message all right you do also have some options at the top here if I tap on the camera it's going to initiate a Google meet call and that'll basically be a video chat with that person if I tap on the phone it will just initiate a normal voice call to that person all right now when I'm finish saying this message I'm going to hit my back button to back out of that message and get back to the main screen of my text messages app and at this point I can then start a new chat with someone else or I can choose to open another another message and read it and when you're finished and you're all done with that message you can simply leave it there to reference later or you can swipe to the right to Archive the message and it will then basically move it off of your messages screen all right so that's a brief overview of how to send and receive text messages in the messages app I also have a link below to this uh cool Bluetooth speaker that will be also in the YouTube shopping cart right here so if you're in the market for a new Bluetooth speaker definitely check out this in the shopping cart I also have U that wall charger I mentioned as well that'll just be uh will go with the cable you got in the Box to make sure you can charge the phone properly thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one