The iOS 26 Messages app is set to gain support for customized backgrounds for conversations, and it appears that AI will be ...

Apple’s Messages app is set to gain a pair of new features in iOS 26 that follow in the path of third-party clients like WhatsApp.

This means any text exchange with a non-iPhone user ... remove the subject of an image from its background and place it in another app like Messages. It's part of iOS 16's Visual Lookup.