Pogue's Basics: How to forward a text message
In a previous “Pogue’s Basics” tip, I let you know that you could report cellphone text-message spam by forwarding it to 7726.
“Well, great,” one reader wrote, “but how do you forward a text message!?”
Ah. I guess that might have been helpful information!
On the iPhone, hold your finger down on the actual text message that you want to pass along. When the More button appears, tap it, then tap the curly Forward arrow.
On Android, hold your finger down on the actual text message, and then tap Forward.
In each case, you’re now asked for the phone number you want to forward to.
Boom: The deed is done.
David Pogue, tech columnist for Yahoo Finance, welcomes nontoxic comments in the comments section below. On the web, he’s davidpogue.com. On Twitter, he’s @pogue. On email, he’s poguester@yahoo.com. You can read all his articles here, or you can sign up to get his columns by email.
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