During the holidays when people are traveling to visit family, text messaging is more important than ever -- how else to share pictures of the absurd Christmas sweater your aunt gifted you? The Messages app iniOS 18.2on iPhone (and the latest versions for the iPad and Mac) now includes new formatting and other features to make texting even better. Animated effects and text formatting make chatting more fun, and RCS support means your friends with Android phones can finally send high-resolution images. If your brain is active late at night, you can schedule texts to be sent at a more reasonable hour without waking anyone up.And don't forget the abilities to bounce texts from a satellite and create your own emoji with Genmoji -- an Apple Intelligence feature on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 and select iPad models. Here are eight new features in the Messages app you should know about. Read more:iOS 18 Review: Get Ready to Customize Your iPhoneAlso, if you're just getting started with the new s...