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You can now set custom backgrounds for group chats and even conduct polls, a feature that will almost certainly be abused to heinous ends as soon as it launches. Natural language searching is also coming to the Messages app, so you can hopefully find old chats and photos more easily than before. Alex has spent most of the last decade reviewing games, smartphones, headphones, and laptops, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

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