If you have the person you want to text in your contacts, you can start typing their name. You’ll see their name come up in the options. Tap it. If you don’t have the person you want to text in your contacts, you’ll have to type their phone number out. You can add as many people as recipients as you want.
Some phones will start you off in the menu when you open them. If that’s the case, skip to the next step.
If you already have a conversation with the person you want to text on your phone, it will show up in the text messaging screen. You can select this conversation to send a new text message to them, instead of selecting the new message option.
Note, some non-smart phones prompt you to enter your message before selecting a recipient. If this is the case, do that first, then select the “Send to” option. This will give you a list of your contacts and an option to enter a phone number.
If you have a phone with a full keyboard, called a QWERTY keyboard, just type out your message like you would type on a computer keyboard. If you have a flip phone or another phone without a full keyboard, you’ll see three or four letters beside each number on the keys. To enter a letter, you have to hit the key that it’s on a certain number of times. For example, the “1” key will have “a”, “b”, and “c” on it. To enter a “c”, you have to hit the “1” key three times. [3] X Research source
On a non-smartphone, you’ll hit the “Okay” or “Select” button. On a smartphone, you’ll generally just tap the person’s name to open the contact details.
