Apple released the first public beta of iOS 18 on Monday, just over a month after the tech giant announced the software at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. You can customize your lock screen and schedule messages to send later in iOS 18. One cool new feature that will make your texting more fun is the ability to use more Tapbacks, Apple’s version of Reactions. With iOS 18, you can react to messages using all your emojis and stickers.
Learn more: Everything you need to know about the iOS 18 public beta
We recommend that you only download a beta on a device other than your primary device. Since this is not the final version of iOS 18, the update may have bugs and battery life may be short, so it’s best to keep these issues on a secondary device.
Note that the beta is not the final version of iOS 18, so more features may be added to your iPhone when iOS 18 is released. Apple has said that iOS 18 will be available to the public this fall, but there is no firm date yet.
Here’s how you can use all your emojis and stickers to react to texts in Messages.
How to Access All Emojis for Tapbacks
Add any emoji as tapback in iOS 18.
1. Open messages.
2. Go to the right chat.
3. Long press on a message.
4. In the Tapbacks bubble above the message, scroll right and tap the smiley face.
This will bring up your emoji keyboard at the bottom of your screen. You can scroll through the emojis or use the search function to find the emoji you want to use.
You can also tap the sticker icon (the folded circle) to the left of the emoji keyboard to access your preset and custom stickers. That means you can react to someone’s message with a sticker of your pet if you want. And who doesn’t want to see more pets?
Keep in mind that iOS 18 is still in beta, so these features may be buggy or not work properly. There will likely be more betas before the operating system is released to the public, giving Apple time to work out any issues. As of now, however, it’s unclear when Apple will release iOS 18.
For more, here’s how to decipher all emojis. You can also check out my hands-on experience with the iOS 18 public beta and how get rid of your flashlight from your lock screen.
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