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in her office, and she has been happily printing on a green background. Touch this app to open
ever since. it for sending and reading text messages.

Our old HP8500 served us well for many years. You can think of texting (most people use the
These two new printers provide many new ca- term “texting” instead of “messaging”) as anoth-
pabilities and are easier to set up and use. er form of email, and we all know how to use
Hopefully we can look forward to many years of email, right? When the app is open, the starting
good use out of them as well. screen will have the word “Messages” at the top
center. To the left will be “Edit” and to the right

will be the NEW MESSAGE icon – a square
It is a far, far better printing situation than I have with a pencil on it. If you have any text messag-
ever known. es on your phone you will see them listed here,
the most recent message on top. You should be
Back to the Basics in the habit of DELETING text messages you no

longer need, just like you do your email. There
Basic iPhone Texting is a setting in your iPhone to set how long you

wish to keep your text messages (including a
“forever” option!). To DELETE a text message,
By Jim Cerny, Forum Leader, Sarasota Tech- touch “Edit” and an empty circle will appear next
nology User Group, Florida to each message sender – touch the circles of

October 2017 issue, Sarasota TUG Monitor the text messages you wish to delete, and the
circle will change to blue with a white check
www.thestug.org mark indicating you have SELECTED that mes-
jimcerny123 (at) aol.com sage. Then touch on “Delete” at the bottom of
the screen to delete that message.
Whoever thought that “texting” would become
such a common communication method? I
mean, who would need to TEXT someone and
spend all that time using their fingers (or
thumbs) when you can just CALL the person
and talk to them directly (or at least leave a
voice message)?? Well, texting is indeed very
popular and is found to be useful by many peo-
ple. The definition of “texting” or “messaging” is
using your iPhone to send text messages to an-
other phone or device. The receiver will hear a
tone that indicates a message has been re-
ceived and may read it or reply to it at their lei-
sure. This article is intended to help you with the
basic texting functions. Be aware that there are
more texting options and abilities beyond what
is presented here.

The texting “app” (application or program) for
the iPhone is called “Messages” and comes free
with your iPhone. You cannot delete this app.
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