Andrew O’Hara for AppleInsider:
Messages is one of the most used apps on iOS, making it no surprise that Apple invested quite a bit of time in making it all the more powerful with iOS 13. Here is everything that has changed with the Messages app.
Profiles are new with iOS 13 and the Messages app. It allows you to set your first and last name, as well as an image for yourself that is automatically shared when someone adds your contact information. This can apply to everyone or just those who you have saved as contacts. That way all your contacts always have a great image and proper name attributed to them.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s Contacts app, of course, is getting a huge overhaul in iOS 13.
MacDailyNews Take: In iOS 13’s Dark Mode, Messages looks so good, that we know that we’ll never turn Dark Mode off!
Anyone see if iOS Contacts will FINALLY support Groups??? Been waiting… since 2007!?!
Calendar needs an update too… unbelievable that we still can’t scroll items on a day in the Month view…
Also, when — if ever — will Maps think to display a speedometer, a la Waze?
Can someone who’s running the beta tell me that Apple finally added more than 2 reminder alarm options to the make new event within Calendar? I use Fantastical to get around this short coming.