Apple could make Messages so much better with these improvements

[Andy Meek]

• Apple's Messages app is one of the most popular messaging apps today, and one of the many products that keep Apple users tied to the iPhone maker's ecosystem.
• The Messages app received some fun and useful improvements with the arrival of macOS Big Sur, as well as iOS 14, like the ability to pin conversations.
• However, there are still a few areas where more improvement to the Apple Messages app would be welcome.

The Apple Messages app over the years has become a fun, full-featured, and increasingly useful place where I spend a lot of time during sessions on my phone or with my MacBook Air. I've got an open game of "Cup Pong" going with a friend via the Messages app right now, in fact, as well as endless stickers- and GIF-laden texts from friends, Uber and Postmates drivers, colleagues -- as well as businesses, which may actually be my favorite use case for any messaging app, let alone the messaging app that comes standard with Apple products like iPhones and MacBooks.

Recent days have seen Apple bring a ton of improvements to Messages, thanks in part to the arrival of macOS Big Sur and iOS 14. The latest versions of Apple's desktop and mobile operating systems brought new features for Messages users that include the ability to pin conversations to the top of the list of chats within the Messages app. This is one more example of how the whole experience of using the app has stayed relatively smooth and fast over time, with Apple adding even more usability along the way -- which is why it pains me to acknowledge that, still for too many message use cases, I find myself needing to fall back on an alternative like Facebook's own Messenger app.

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