TIP You can include emoticons in your message (see Use emoticons in a message).
TIP You can also send a contact entry as part of a multimedia message. Do this in the Contacts app (see Send contacts).
Receive and view text and multimedia messages
You can view pictures, videos, and animated GIFs, and listen to music files included in a multimedia message. You can save pictures in JPG format to your smartphone for viewing in the Photos application. Animated GIF files appear as JPG files in the Messaging app.
1Open Messaging 
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2Tap a conversation to view messages.
3To view an attached file in a multimedia message: Tap a music, video, or vCard file name.
4Attached pictures are displayed within the message. To view an attached picture: Tap the picture and tap View. Tap Copy To Photos to save an attached JPG picture.
5(Optional) Do any of the following from the body of the message:
•To call a number: Tap the number, and tap 
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•To add a number to Contacts: Tap and hold the number, and tap Add to Contacts. Tap Save As New to create a new contact, or tap Add To Existing to add this number to an existing contact.
•To send an email: Tap the email address.
•To go to a web address: Tap it.
Add a contact from a text or multimedia message
To add a message sender as a contact:
1In Conversations view, tap a conversation with someone who is not a contact.
2Tap the header at the top of the screen.
3Tap Add To Contacts.
4Tap one of the following:
Add New Contact: Create a new contact for the number.
Add To Existing: Tap the contact you want to add the number to.
Forward a message
1In a conversation, tap a message.
2Do one of the following:
•To forward the message through Messaging: Tap Forward, and enter the recipient’s number or address in the To field.
•To forward the message in an email: Tap Forward Via Email, and enter the recipient’s name or email address in the To field.
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