Reply, react, edit or delete a message

Answer a message, add one of ten quick reactions, fix a typo, or delete it.

Replies show the message you answered above yours: tap that quote to read all of it and jump to the message. Reactions show under a message with a count. There are ten quick reactions: thumbs up, heart, laugh, wow, sad, check, fire, party, 100 and eyes. Edited messages say Edited. You can delete your own messages, and any message in a room you moderate.

Messages. Send a message in the group chat, react to a message, reply, open a link, and write a direct message. Captions only, no sound needed.

Phone

Long press a message: one of the ten quick reactions, Reply, Edit (your own text), Delete or Report message.

The long-press menu on Lena’s message: ten quick reactions, Reply, Copy, Pin, Report message and Delete (Delete shows for owners, admins and moderators). On your own message, Edit and Delete take the place of Report message.
Message options.

Watch

  1. Tap a message: React (the same ten quick reactions), Edit (typed or spoken), Delete (two taps) or Report message.
  2. Replies on the watch are plain messages, without the quoted one.

Web app and iPhone

  1. Long press (touch) or right click a message, or use its More button (a keyboard user tabs to the message and presses Enter): the ten quick reactions, Reply, Edit (your own text), Delete or Report message. Tap a reaction under a message to add yours.
  2. Edit shows Editing message above the box. Tap Save edit, and the message says Edited.

Open the message a reply answers

Tap the quoted message above a reply. KeyUp opens the whole quoted text and, when that message is in the chat, scrolls to it and highlights it for a moment.

From a notification

Phone

A message notification has Reply (type or speak) and React 👍, so you don’t need to open KeyUp.

A message notification from #shipping at the top of the Talk tab, with Reply and React buttons.
Reply or react from the notification.

Watch

The same Reply and React 👍 buttons are on the watch notification.

Still stuck? Email [email protected]. Tell us your phone and watch model and what you tried.