Apple Vision Pro User Guide
- Welcome
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- 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 aeroplane or a train
- Refresh apps in the background
- Set content restrictions in Screen Time
- Let others use your Apple Vision Pro
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- Get started with Apple Intelligence
- Use Writing Tools
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create Genmoji
- Use Image Wand
- Get web page summaries
- Summarise an audio recording
- Summarise notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Apple Music Classical
- Books
- Calendar
- Capture
- Clock
- Encounter Dinosaurs
- Home
- Maps
- Mindfulness
- News
- Numbers
- Pages
- Podcasts
- Reminders
- Shazam
- Shortcuts
- Spatial Gallery
- Stocks
- Tips
- Voice Memos
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Turn on features with the Accessibility Shortcut
- Change Siri accessibility features
- Use Guided Access
- Copyright and trademarks
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 personalise 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 personalise the background of a conversation, you must use iMessage on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26 or 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 Colour 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.