Although iMessage has freed you from bothersome text-message fees, not all of your friends have their own iPhones. So in many cases, SMS rules still apply. You can keep track of how many characters you’ve written in a text simply by going into the phone’s Settings, then Messages, and turning on Character Count. The phone’s texting interface will now count up to 160, letting you know if you’ve reached the character cap. (The counter starts once you've filled an entire line.) At the very least, this will remind any long-winded texters not to annoy their friends.
The character count feature shows users how many characters they have typed out of 160.
