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After sending a text, there is a blue < and number on the top left corner. What does that mean?

iPhone 11

Posted on Oct 23, 2020 12:35 PM

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Posted on Oct 28, 2020 7:06 AM

Hey purpleonion3,


We see that you are inquiring about a feature of the Messages app. We would love to provide guidance to you about this.


The symbol that you are seeing should take you back to the main list of your Messages and the number is a notification that you have an unread message.


You can check out additional features of the Messages app using this resource: About iMessage and SMS/MMS


Hope this helps!


Take care.

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Oct 28, 2020 7:06 AM in response to purpleonion3

Hey purpleonion3,


We see that you are inquiring about a feature of the Messages app. We would love to provide guidance to you about this.


The symbol that you are seeing should take you back to the main list of your Messages and the number is a notification that you have an unread message.


You can check out additional features of the Messages app using this resource: About iMessage and SMS/MMS


Hope this helps!


Take care.

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