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Use message effects on Mac
With macOS 11 and later, you can add special effects to your messages — full-screen animations like fireworks, balloons or confetti; message-specific effects like a slam or echo; or interactive effects, like invisible ink that your friends need to swipe over to read your text.
![The Messages window with several conversations listed in the sidebar at the left and a message effect, fireworks, appearing in the conversation at the right.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65A999AC13B61AFE4806A611/65A999AE157993C0D60EEF70/en_AU/49a1bfcd86f5147bce881383473de8ec.png)
In the Messages app
on your Mac, select a conversation.
Enter your message in the field at the bottom of the window.
Click the Apps button
, click the Message Effects button
, then click an effect.
When you select an effect, you see a preview of it.
To send it, press Return on your keyboard or click the Send button
.