Welcome
- Apple Vision Pro and visionOS overview
- Get started with Apple Vision Pro
- Stay connected and share memories
- Use Apple Vision Pro at work
- New entertainment experiences
- Adjust the fit
- Adjust display alignment
- Use ZEISS Optical Inserts
- Attach or remove the Light Seal or head band
- Clean your Apple Vision Pro
- Handle and store your Apple Vision Pro
- Connect the battery
- Charge the battery
- Prepare your space
- Safely use your Apple Vision Pro
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Turn on and set up
- Wake and unlock
- Redo eye and hand setup
- Basic gestures and controls
- Adjust volume
- Enter text and use Dictation
- Take a capture or recording of your view
- Use the Apple Vision Pro app
- Find settings
- Connect Apple Vision Pro to the internet
- Sign in to your Apple Account on Apple Vision Pro
- Use iCloud on Apple Vision Pro
- Set a passcode and use Optic ID
- - Capture your Persona
  - About EyeSight
- Connect Bluetooth accessories
- Use AirDrop
- Use Family Sharing
- Use Home View
- Open, rearrange, and delete apps
- Open Control Center
- See your notifications
- Search
- Learn the meaning of status icons
- Change notification settings and device sounds
- Set the date, time, language, and region
- Change your device name
- Change the appearance of text and windows
- Unlock your iPhone with Apple Vision Pro
- See your keyboard, game controller, or iPhone while immersed
- See people around you while immersed
- Use Apple Vision Pro on an airplane or a train
- - Set up a Focus
  - Turn a Focus on or off
- Refresh apps in the background
- Set content restrictions in Screen Time
- Recenter your view
- Move, resize, and close app windows
- Use widgets
- Use Environments
- Adjust immersion
- Use Mac Virtual Display
- View Mirroring and AirPlay Receiver
- Share with people nearby
- Use SharePlay in FaceTime calls
Let others use your Apple Vision Pro
- Get started with Apple Intelligence
- Use Writing Tools
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create Genmoji
- Use Image Wand
- Get webpage summaries
- Summarize an audio recording
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
- - Get apps
  - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
  - Play with friends in Game Center
  - Manage purchases, subscriptions, settings, and restrictions
  - Install and manage fonts
- Apple Music Classical
- Books
- Calendar
- Capture
- Clock
- Encounter Dinosaurs
- - Make or receive a FaceTime call
  - Leave or end a FaceTime call
  - During a call
  - Use spatial Persona
  - Hand off a FaceTime call to another device
  - Block unwanted callers
  - Allow phone calls from your iPhone on Apple Vision Pro
- - View, modify, and organize files and folders
  - Send and share files and folders in iCloud Drive
  - Set up iCloud Drive
  - Connect external servers
- - Create and manage Freeform boards
  - Position items on a board
  - Organize your Freeform board into scenes
  - Share and collaborate
- Home
- - Get started with Keynote
  - Create and manage presentations
  - - Add, skip, or delete slides
    - Change the theme, layout, or background
  - Add animations and transitions
  - Check spelling, replace words, and add comments
  - Send or share a presentation
- - - Add and remove email accounts
    - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - Set email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize email in mailboxes
  - - Flag or block emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
    - Use Mail Privacy Protection
  - Change email settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Print emails
- Maps
- - Set up Messages
  - Send and receive messages
  - Add photos, stickers, and more
  - Unsend, edit, and delete messages
  - Keep track of messages and conversations
  - Collaborate in Messages
  - Send and request money with Apple Cash
  - Change notifications
  - Block messages
- Mindfulness
- - Play music
  - Control playback
  - Add a Music Poster to your space
  - Change the way music sounds
- News
- - Create and format notes
  - Solve math
  - Work with PDFs
  - Pin, organize, and search notes
  - Share and collaborate
  - Add accounts and change settings
- Numbers
- Pages
- - Create, view, and edit passwords
  - Share passwords or passkeys
  - Change weak or compromised passwords
  - Automatically fill in verification codes
- - View photos and videos
  - Create a spatial photo or view a spatial scene
  - Search in Photos
  - Share photos and videos
  - Interact with content in a photo or video
  - Identify objects in your photos
  - Use iCloud Photos
- Podcasts
- Reminders
- - Browse the web
  - Use spatial browsing
  - View media
  - Customize your Safari settings
  - Open and close tabs
  - Bookmark favorite webpages
  - Find links shared with you
  - Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
  - Automatically fill in forms
  - Get extensions
  - Import and export browsing data
- Shazam
- Shortcuts
- Spatial Gallery
- Stocks
- Tips
- - Find shows, movies, and more
  - Watch Apple Immersive Video and 3D movies
  - Play shows and movies
  - Watch movies and TV in an Environment
  - Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, and Apple TV channels
  - Watch sports
  - Watch multiple live sports streams
  - Buy content and manage your library
  - Change settings
- Voice Memos
- Set up and activate Siri
- Find out what Siri can do
- Tell Siri about yourself
- About Siri Suggestions
- Change Siri settings
- Get started with accessibility features
- Turn on features with the Accessibility Shortcut
- Change Siri accessibility features
- - Live Speech
  - Use Vocal Shortcuts
- Use Guided Access
- Use built-in privacy and security protections
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Contact Key Verification on Apple Vision Pro
- Turn Apple Vision Pro on or off
- Force restart
- Update visionOS
- Back up and restore
- Return settings to their defaults
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away
- Erase Apple Vision Pro
- Get information about your Apple Vision Pro
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of visionOS
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Share and add media, Memoji stickers, and more in Messages on Apple Vision Pro

When someone shares links, images, and other content with you in the Messages app, you can find that content in several places: in the Messages conversation, in the Shared with You section (in the Details view of your Messages conversation), and in the Shared with You section of the corresponding app. Apps that support Shared with You include Photos, Music, News, and more.

Share photos, links, and other media in Messages

You can add photos, links, and more to your messages.

Go to the Messages app on your Apple Vision Pro.
Do any of the following:
- Share links, photos, and videos: Paste a link into your message, or tap , then tap .
  To mark up or edit the photo, tap the photo in the message, then choose an option.
- Add a sticker: Tap a sticker app in Messages, pinch and hold a sticker, then drag it on top of a message in the conversation.
  Before you release the sticker, you can rotate or change its size. To see text that’s covered by a sticker, double-tap the sticker.
- Share content from another app (like Podcasts, News, or Music): Select the content you want to share, tap , then choose Messages.
  To hide an app’s Shared with You section, go to Settings > Apps > Messages > Shared with You and turn it off.
- Share a 3D object from your files: Open the Files app , pinch and hold the 3D object, tap Share, then choose Messages. See Send a copy of a file.

Send Memoji stickers

You can use Memoji stickers to express a range of emotions using Memoji characters. If you created a custom Memoji on another device, like iPhone, you can also send Memoji stickers for that Memoji on Apple Vision Pro.

Go to the Messages app on your Apple Vision Pro.
In a conversation, tap , tap , then pinch and drag a sticker to a message in the conversation.

Add a background to a conversation

You can personalize the background of an iMessage conversation. After you do, other people in the conversation can decide if they want to add the background you choose on their devices too.

Note: To personalize the background of a conversation, you must use iMessage on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, or later.

Go to the Messages app on your Apple Vision Pro.
Go to the conversation where you want to add a photo to the background.
Tap the person or group at the top of the conversation, then tap Backgrounds.
Choose a background style.
You can choose a built-in animated option like Color or Sky, or a photo from your library.
Tap Done.

Animate your message

Use bubble effects to animate within the message bubble, or send messages with full-screen effects—such as lively lasers, a moving spotlight, or echoing bubbles—that play when your recipient gets your message.

Go to the Messages app on your Apple Vision Pro.
In a new or existing conversation, type a message you want to send.
Tap , tap Message effects, then tap to preview different effects.
Tap to send the message or to cancel the effect and return to your message.

Messages automatically uses the following effects for specific text strings:

Balloons for “Happy birthday”
Confetti for “Congratulations”
Fireworks for “Happy New Year”

Work with attachments

Go to the Messages app on your Apple Vision Pro.
In a conversation, do any of the following:
- Save or copy an attachment: Pinch and hold the attachment, then choose an option.
  Tip: To save quickly, tap next to the attachment.
- View a 3D object: Tap the supported file, or drag it out of the Messages window. You can look at the object from every angle, as though it’s right in front of you.
- Pin a link: Pinch and hold the link, then tap .
  The shared content is elevated in the Shared with You section of supported apps, Messages search, and the Details view of the conversation.

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Apple Vision Pro User Guide