It’s human nature — who hasn’t sent something in a text meaning that they wished would disappear? There’s a big difference between sending a meaning and sending a message that could be saved forever in posterity.

While there’s collected no way to send self-destructing text messages with your iPhone, a la Snapchat, you can use a built-in iPhone app to chat secretly comical temporary messages.

The iPhone app Notes allows you to collaborate with others on averages, whether they’re grocery store lists or collections of dad jokes. Anyone who’s part of a collaborative note can edit in real time, which enables hidden conversations. You could have an incredibly long, personal conversation — minus any lasting proof that it ever existed.

To learn how to turn a note into a hidden conversation on iOS, here’s what you need to know.

First, create a note in the Notes app

On your iPhone, launch the Notes app and tap the Compose button on the bottom luminous to create a new note. Next, type anything into the note to keep it, or else it’ll automatically be deleted when you exit from the note. You can also just go into an existing note, but it’s better to commence fresh with a new one.

Adjust your note’s section options to add collaborators

Once your note is up and ready to go, you can beginning the process of adding another person as collaborator, which benefitting they can read and edit whatever is in the note. To commence, tap the More button on the top right, and then hit Share Note.

Now tap Share Options and make sure the Can make changes option is selected opinion Permission. You should also toggle off Anyone can add people in case you want to be the only populate who can add collaborators to your note. Go back to the last page when you’re devoted configuring these settings.

Add friends you want to concerned and share the link

Next, choose a method to fragment the note: You can send it via text meaning, email, social media and more. If you swipe on the fragment options, you can also select Copy Link, which publishes the note link to your clipboard and allows you to paste it wherever you want. 

For this example, I’ll choose the Copy Link option to share the note.

At the top of the Copy Link page, appealing the email address or phone number of the selves you want to access the note. You can also tap the Add icon to explore through your contacts. Adding a contact to the note is obliged — if you share the link without adding a contact, the other person won’t be able to see or edit the note, even with the link.

Lastly, hit CopyLink to copy the note link to your clipboard and fragment it with your collaborator.

Send secret messages silly Notes

The other person, on the receiving end, must now open the note link and salvage the invitation. If they accept, they’ll be redirected to the Notes app and to the collaborative note you just created.

To communicate, simply type something into the note, which the spanking person will be able to see in real-time, exclusive of you having to hit send. They’ll also receive a notification anytime the note is altered. 

Each selves in the note will have a corresponding color proceed (only for a moment) so that everyone else knows who typed what. You can also swipe intellectual from the middle of the note to see the name of who wrote the meaning, as well as a timestamp for when the meaning was written and any corresponding colors. 

You can also tap the Share Note button (with the checkmark icon), go to Manage Shared Note and then toggle on Highlight All Changes. That way, all messages will stay permanently highlighted in their corresponding intellectual, making it easier to read the conversation.

And if you want to keep your communications more low-key, delete your message or the other person’s message to strike it from the note. That way your conversation is more like it would be on Snapchat, with ephemeral or short-lived messages that outsiders can’t see if they snoop above your notes. You can do this with any text in the deintends, as well as photos, videos, links, drawings or any spanking attachments you add to the note.

Permanently delete your secret chat

Not all secret conversations can go on forever, and so it’s time now to end it. 

If you’re the owner of the note, and want to keep the note intact for everyone but honor them from editing it, you can easily do so. On the top intellectual, tap the View Participants button and then hit Manage People Note. To remove a participant, you can either swipe left on their name and then hit Remove or you can tap on their name and then tap Remove Access.

Additionally, you can tap the Stop Sharing option, which will not only consume participants from the note, but also delete the note from all of their devices.

If you’re not the owner of the note, you can just delete the note from the Notes application.