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 in Travel Mode
- Refresh apps in the background
- Set content restrictions in Screen Time
- Let others use your Apple Vision Pro
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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 Apple Intelligence
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Image Wand
- Use Writing Tools to write, improve, and summarize content
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Turn on features with the Accessibility Shortcut
- Change Siri accessibility features
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- Use AssistiveTouch
- Perform actions with sounds
- Perform actions with your eyes
- Perform actions with your voice
- Perform actions with face gestures
- Use Look to Drive
- Adjust settings for the Digital Crown
- Look up to open Control Center
- Use a pointer to navigate
- Control your device with an external keyboard
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Use Guided Access
- Copyright and trademarks
Send and receive messages on Apple Vision Pro
Use the Messages app to send and receive texts, photos, videos, and audio messages.
To also receive your iPhone’s SMS, MMS, and RCS messages on Apple Vision Pro, see the Apple Support article Forward text messages from your iPhone to other devices.
Send and reply to a message
You can send a text message to one or more people to start a conversation. You can also reply inline in group or individual conversations to improve clarity and help keep the conversation organized.
Go to the Messages app
on your Apple Vision Pro.Tap
To respond to a specific message, pinch and hold the message, then tap
Tap the text field and type your message. If you want to add other items to your message, like a photo or video, tap
or 
.Tip: To dictate your message, look at
Tap
on the keyboard or next to the text field.
To view conversation details, tap the name or phone number at the top of the window. You can tap Info to edit the person’s contact information, share your location, view attachments, leave a group conversation, and more.
Use Smart Reply in Messages
Apple Intelligence can help you quickly draft a response with Smart Reply.
Note: Apple Intelligence on visionOS 27 is not available in all languages or regions.*
Go to the Messages app
on your Apple Vision Pro.Select a conversation, tap the text field, then choose a suggested reply above the virtual keyboard.
Apple Intelligence drafts a reply in the text field. To refine your reply, see Use Writing Tools to write, improve, and summarize content.
Use Siri to send and receive messages
Siri can read your incoming messages out loud to you, and you can speak a reply for Siri to send. Use Siri to find information and get things done on Apple Vision Pro.
Siri: Say something like:
“Send a message to them saying how about tomorrow” (while looking at a message or contact)
“Read my last message from Bob”
You can set up Siri to automatically send a message after it has been read back to you. If you want to skip the confirmation step when sending messages, go to the Settings app 
, tap Siri, then under Responses, turn on Automatically Send Messages.
Have a group conversation
When you’re exchanging messages with two or more other people in a group conversation, you can set the name and image of the group**, add more people, or leave the group.
Go to the Messages app
on your Apple Vision Pro.Tap a group conversation in the sidebar, or tap
To make changes to a group conversation, tap the group name at the top of the conversation, then do any of the following:
Change the name or image of the group**: Tap Edit in the top-right corner, then tap Edit Name & Photo.
Add or change the background of the group message: Tap Backgrounds, then choose a background.
Add someone to the group conversation: Tap Add.
Leave the group conversation: Tap Leave this Conversation.
Remove someone from the group conversation: Pinch and hold their name, then tap Remove from Group.
To poll the group, tap
Tip: Apple Intelligence can suggest a poll when it detects different options being discussed in a group conversation—tap Create a Poll when it appears.
Note: Apple Intelligence on visionOS 27 is not available in all languages or regions.*
You can also mute a conversation so you don’t get notifications.
For more information about the group message features available when some members of the group don’t have an Apple device or an Apple device with iMessage turned on, see the Apple Support article Send a group text message.