Is this the most creative prank? Absolutely not. Re-send them the same thing over and over Your friend may be too freaked out to realize it's April 1 and a joke. Send them a 'ghost' photoĭid you know there are apps that can add faux ghosts to your pics? Well now you do, available on both Android and iOS. With all their real apps on the second page, your friend will be tapping away to no avail. Or, as suggested by BuzzFeed, you can replace their wallpaper with a screenshot of their normal home screen. There are two ways to go with this prank: after moving the first page of apps to a second page, you can download an image of a fake cracked screen and make that your friend's wallpaper. However, with the right image, it can be the perfect prank. Try sending a random funny photo to a friend out of context and watch their face light up across the room - just please, if you try this with strangers, do *not* Airdrop them inappropriate photos, thank you very much. Sorry, Android users, this one is also strictly for the iPhone folks.Īirdrops are underutilized tools that have plenty of prank capacity. He asks his fans to tweet out the reactions to said prank, and the results are 10/10 hilarious. Any one of Nathan Fielder's text pranksįor years, the Nathan For You star has been tweeting texting pranks. Try changing your name to 'Mom' and see the hilarious messages roll in.ĭon't do it too long or you'll ruin a good thing, but fair warning: If you've got friends who gossip a lot via text though, this might not be the one for you. If you're brave enough, a funny thing to do is switch names of contacts in a friend's phone. This prank is not for the faint of heart. They'll be so confused, and while you might not be there to see the look of confusion, knowing the feeling will be there is what's important. Do your friend a favor and prank them by alerting them to the latest comedy shows or protests going on in their area. Just don't get caught!Įveryone from Kathy Griffin to activists have texting lists that you can sign up for. Just go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement, and go wild. Sure, you can adjust your settings to turn a quick 'omw' into 'on my way!' or you can sneak into a friend's phone and change 'lol' to the lyrics of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' or whatever you see fit. The most underutilized function of the shortcut feature is for texting pranks. Here are some of our favorites to pull out in times of need.

With a few seconds and some pre-planning, you can become the master of text message pranks that you've always dreamed of being. Thanks to smartphones, you have all you need in your pocket. You don't have to resort to digitally cloning yourself to expertly prank someone. These days, texting pranks requires a subtle cunningness to throw your target off guard. Sorry to break it to you, but the same old jokes aren't going to cut it anymore. The art of pranking has seen a lot of growth with the rise of technology - but the days of prank phone calls or farting noise apps are already long gone. The Taoiseach said his staff told the African Union what had happened and warned other governments.Everyone has a phone on them, which means lucky for you, everyone is susceptible to a classic text message prank. “I ended the call, but kind of needed to play along for a little while before assuming that it was a suspect call, but I think you’ll note from my answers to the questions, I was very careful in my answers, because I was suspicious immediately, and then it became increasingly obvious through the course of the conversations that it was fake.” “But it became very quickly very obvious that there was something afoot of course and there was something wrong. “At the outset of the call, because they used the image of the person and their voice, we believed it was genuine,” he said. Mr Varadkar said those responsible secured the video call by impersonating somebody who worked for the African Union, adding that his office had since changed their procedures in relation to calls. Roderic O’Gorman ‘surprised’ by claim gardaí weren’t told of plan to house asylum seekers in Galway hotel which burnt down

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