Things You Need to Know About MMS Messages?

When it comes to iPhone messages, these acronyms you may not unfamiliar, SMS, MMS etc. However, did you really know the meaning of these acronyms. It is easy for you to understand the meaning of SMS which referred to as a “text message”. Then what about MMS? Today we will share something about MMS with you for you to get familiar with iPhone messages well.

MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Services which is a way of iPhone messaging. Like SMS, MMS messaging is a way to send a message from one iPhone to another. The difference is that MMS can include not just text, but also sound, images and video. It is most commonly used to send a photo taken with a camera phone to another phone.

MMS is an extension of the SMS protocol, making its usage familiar to existing SMS users. An MMS messages is a single entity, not a collection of attachments. One of the main practical differences between MMS and SMS is that whilst SMS messages are limited to 160 bytes, an MMS messages has no size limit and could be many Kbytes in size, or even larger. MMS requires a third generation network to enable such large messages to b delivered, although smaller messages can be sent even with second generation networks using GPRS.

How to enable MMS on iPhone?

1.From the Home screen, tap on Settings.
2.Scroll down to and tap on Messages.
3.Scroll down and switch on MMS Messaging