
“So I made a couple quick stickers locally on my iPhone to test it out, and sure enough it worked.”Īfter tweeting out the idea last week, Howell says he received such positive feedback that he decided to get to work. I started joking with a friend that I could maybe make him say anything I wanted,” explains Howell. “I noticed how you could completely cover up texts with stickers. When iMessage stickers were announced this June at WWDC, he began working nights and weekends on his first pack, Guises.įollowing Guises’ launch, Howell began trying out ideas of what to build next, he says.
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Phoneys’ creator Adam Howell, who works full-time as a remote employee for San Francisco-based Lithium, likes to develop apps in his free time. There are a number of fake texts to pick from, ranging from more generic statements, like “ you’re so smart,” or “ you’re hilarious,” to those that may be more useful in specific discussions, like “ you make this parenting thing look easy,” or “ the sports team I pull for sucks,” for example.įor extra fun, just respond to the “phoney” text to continue the conversation, and watch as your friend reacts in confusion. Scroll through the available “phoney” texts you want to replace that message with, and drag it on top of the original text. After downloading and installing Phoneys from the iMessage App Store, look for a text message you want to change. However, not everyone is aware of how stickers work in iOS 10 just yet, which gives you time to enjoy an app like Phoneys. The idea is that you could react to a text with a sticker, you could decorate an incoming photo, or even take turns with friends making a sticker collage. In iOS 10, iMessage now lets you place stickers on top of incoming text messages, photos, GIFs or even other stickers. Taking advantage of layering is what makes this new app so clever. Yep, you can actually put words in your friend’s mouth, then laugh while they try to figure out if they’ve lost their mind, or their phone has been hacked.

And thanks to the new layering feature in the updated version of iMessage, you can place these stickers – which say things like “ My political views are totally wrong” or “ I have terrible taste in music” – overtop your friend’s message to make it look like they texted these self-deprecating statements to you. Got iOS 10? Want to mess with your friends? A hilarious new iMessage App called Phoneys lets you prank others by sending stickers that look exactly like iMessage text bubbles.
