{"id":1934,"date":"2025-06-18T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:19:18","slug":"how-to-set-an-image-as-your-imessage-chat-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/how-to-set-an-image-as-your-imessage-chat-background\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set an image as your iMessage chat background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Message background in iOS 26\" data-src=\"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Message-background-iOS-26.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iPhone, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/how-to-set-an-image-as-your-imessage-chat-background\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to set an image as your iMessage chat background<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikevandermeulen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}