How to unpin a text message on iPhone 12

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What Messages Can You Pin in the Messages App?
How to Pin a Text Message on an iPhone
How to Find Pinned Messages
Easily Find Images and Links by Pinning Them
How to star messages
How to find starred messages
How to pin conversations
Introduction
How do I remove a pin from a text message on iPhone?
How do I unpin?
How do I delete a pinned text message?

Apple’s Messages app lets you pin certain texts or iMessages to make them easier to find in the future.

Apple has a feature that allows you to pin certain types of text messages in your iPhone’s Messages app. This is great for when you want to save a text to quickly find it later, instead of scrolling through long conversations looking for it.

Unfortunately, the type of text messages you can pin is minimal—for some reason, Apple won’t let you pin any old message. Let’s take a look at the sort of texts you can pin and how you can do so in the Messages app.

What Messages Can You Pin in the Messages App?

As of iOS 15, you can only pin links and images in your text or iMessage conversations. You can’t pin regular text or iMessages, but we’re optimistic Apple will add that feature soon.

Aside from individual text message, you can also pin or unpin entire conversations in the Messages app, so messages from that contact will always appear as a priority at the top of the app.

How to Pin a Text Message on an iPhone

Make sure you’ve updated to the latest version of iOS before you begin this easy process. Then follow these steps to pin a text message with a link or image:

Open Messages and tap on the conversation you want to pin the text inside.
Scroll to find the link or image you want to pin.
Tap and hold on the text with the shared content.
Tap Pin. You will see a yellow pin icon indicating text has been pinned.

You can repeat the same process and tap on Unpin to undo this process.

How to Find Pinned Messages

If you want to view your pinned messages, follow these steps:

Open the conversation you want to see your pinned messages from.
Tap on the profile photo.
A popup will appear, scroll down to Pins and tap See All to view all your pinned messages.

If you’re pinning messages to save them forever, there are better ways to save all the text messages on your iPhone. Using those methods, your texts will stay safe even if you lose your device.

Easily Find Images and Links by Pinning Them

You may not be able to pin all the texts in an iPhone conversation yet, but you can pin article links and images. This means you can look back on news, YouTube videos, memorable pictures, and much more without having to search through an entire conversation for it.

Aside from pinning, the Messages app has many other exciting features you may want to look at as well, including Memojis, reactions, and iMessage apps.

Add stars and pins to access your important messages and conversations:

Star messages you want to save.
Pin conversations to the top of your message history to make them easier to find.

How to star messages

How to find starred messages

To find starred messages across your conversations, in your conversation history, choose an option:

To find a starred message in a specific conversation, open the conversation, and choose an option:

How to pin conversations

Important:

You can pin up to 3 conversations.
The ability to pin conversations isn’t available in India.
You can only pin messages from your mobile device. You can view pinned messages on your mobile device and on Messages for Web.

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Introduction

With the release of iOS 14 for the iPhone and iPadOS 14 for iPad in late 2020, Apple is making it possible for device owners to pin up to nine conversations to the top of the Messages app. Pinning conversations on your iPhone or iPad will make it easier to access your most important message threads. Examples of all instructions in the steps can be seen in both the YouTube video above and the image collection located beneath the steps.

Open the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad home screen and then find one of the conversation threads you want to pin to the top of the list.
Perform a short swipe from left to right across that conversation. You’ll see a yellow pin icon.
Tap the “Pin” icon. You’ll now see that conversation pinned to the top of your list where you’ll be able to more easily tap to open it. Repeat this process to pin up to nine text message threads to the top of your list. You can unpin any of your pinned conversations by performing a long press against any of those conversations to open a menu, and then tapping “Unpin” in the menu.

How do I remove a pin from a text message on iPhone?

How to Unpin Message Conversations in iOS.

Open the Messages app..

Pinned message threads appear at the top of the app and are represented by large icons showing the photos or avatars of people in that thread. Tap and hold the thread you want to unpin until a new menu appears..

Tap Unpin..

How do I unpin?

To unpin a screen: Gesture navigation: Swipe up and hold. 2-button navigation: Touch and hold Back and Home . 3-button navigation: Touch and hold Back and Overview .