The best thing about iMessage is that it eliminates the concern that one of your messages didn’t go through, as you immediately get a delivery notification. You also don’t have to sit there staring at your phone wondering if it was read and when the person on the other end is going to respond. Thanks to a handy little animation, you are aware of when someone is typing a message back to you.
That’s where this great prank comes in.
A twitter user named Matthew Panzarino tweeted a link to a few simple steps that will absolutely drive your friends crazy. Basically, someone created an animated gif that looks exactly like the incoming text graphic in iMessage:
All you have to do is download the image onto your phone and send it to anyone with an iPhone. You can do it mid conversation or just as a text out of nowhere. They’ll get an alert, but it will look like you’re still typing. If your friends are anything like me, they’ll stare at the image for a good 5-10 minutes before realizing something isn’t right.
I tried it on a few of my friends recently and one of them spent the next hour on Apple forums trying to figure out what was wrong with her phone. I felt a little bad for that one, so if you want to let them in on the prank before it gets to that point, I don’t blame you.
You can download the image here. If you pull this off on your friends and they start freaking out, please take a screenshot of it and share it with us.
