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 airplane 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 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
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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
Send and receive messages on Apple Vision Pro
Use the Messages app to send and receive texts, photos, videos, and audio messages.
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
at the top of the window to start a new message, then enter the phone number or name of each recipient, or tap an existing message.To respond to a specific message, pinch and hold the message, then tap
, or choose a Tapback expression (a thumbs-up or a heart, for example).Tap the text field and type your message. If you want to add other items to your message, like a photo or video, tap
, then tap one of the options, likeor
.
Tip: To dictate your message, look at
in the text field, then start speaking.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 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. Find out what Siri can do 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 Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri (or Siri & Search) > 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 start a new group conversation.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
, then tap Polls.
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.