If you’re like most people, you probably use text messaging to communicate with friends and family. But if you’re an Android user, there’s a good chance you also use it to send Star Text Messages. Star Text Messages are a type of text message that uses stars to represent words or phrases. You can send a Star Text Message by pressing the star button on your phone. The star button will turn blue when it’s active and will stay that way until you press the space bar to stop sending messages. When you send a Star Text Message, your phone will ask if you want to include a picture or video in the message. If you choose to include a picture or video, your phone will start up the camera and take a picture or video of the text message as it is being sent. If you choose not to include a picture or video, your phone won’t start up the camera and your message won’t be sent. If you want to receive Star Text Messages, just open up your messaging app and type in “star” into the chat box. Your phone will then show all of your messages from other users who have used this feature before you did.
We’ve all had that moment where you’re scrolling through text messages trying to find something important that was said. Google’s Messages app for Android lets you “star” those messages to easily find them later on.
The feature is simple but quite useful. Similar to Gmail, you can “star” any text message and it gets saved to the “Starred” category. Next time you need to reference something important that was sent to you, just go to the category.
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The “Messages” app comes preinstalled on some Android devices. If you don’t have it, download the app from the Google Play Store.
If this is your first time using Messages, you’ll see a button to “Set Default SMS App” when you open it.
Tapping the button will bring you to a screen or pop-up where you can select “Messages” and tap “Set as Default.”
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Conversations from your previous SMS app should appear in Messages after that. Tap a conversation to see the messages.
Tap and hold the message that you want to save.
Select the star icon in the top toolbar.
Now, to see all of your saved messages in one place, go back to the conversation page and tap the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner.
Select “Starred” from the menu.
And now, you’ll see all of the saved messages!
It’s as simple as that! This is a great trick to know when someone sends you a password, address, or anything else that you might want to reference later.
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