If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You can put your iOS device in recovery mode and then restore it with iTunes. In these situations, you might need to use recovery mode to restore your device: 1  iTunes doesn't recognize your device or says it's in recovery mode.
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending brief, electronic messages between two or more mobile phones, or fixed or portable devices over a phone network.
Text - Computing and telecommunications. 1  Plain text, unformatted text. 2  Text file, a type of computer file opened by most text software. 3  Text message, a short electronic message designed for communication between mobile phone users. 4  Text (Chrome app), a text editor for the Google Chrome web browser.