Seeing If You Have Text Messages

When a text message comes in, the sender’s name and the first line of their text message appear right at the top of your screen for a few seconds, as shown above left (of course, if you don’t have their name in your contacts list, you’ll only see their phone number and not their name). If your iPhone is asleep when their text message comes in, then when you wake it, you’ll see their message on the Lock screen. If you have more than one new message, you can swipe downward to see all of them listed at the top of the Lock screen (shown above right), and to see the text of any message in the list, just unlock your phone. If you look at the Messages app icon on the Home screen, you’ll see it keeps track of how many unread messages you have, by ....