

Your friend will be thinking you’re trying to talk about something deep and try to respond to you. One fun prank you can play is to text using lyrics to a song. You can even change “yes” to “no” and vice versa to get them really confused. The text can be lyrics to a song or a monologue from a movie. Change a phrase that they commonly use like “hey” or “what’s up” into a huge block of text. If you can access your friend’s phone, go to the shortcut feature. The more your friend texts you to stop, the more creative you can get with your bot messages. You can make the bot about any subject you like and pretend this is a part of a mass text service. When your friend sends you a text, pretend you’re a bot and thank them for signing up for your texting service. Need some inspiration for text pranks to use this April Fools’ Day or for any day of the year? Here are 12 funny text pranks to send. We’re now using our phones to prank our friends and family. New Year’s Day was moved from April 1 to January 1.įast forward to the 21st century–April Fools’ Day is still a celebrated, lighthearted holiday in the United States. The hidden files will then spill out onto the desktop once more.It’s said that April Fools’ Day may have begun in 16th century France with the Gregorian calendar change. If you’ve hidden an archive, you retrieve the hidden files slightly differently: Go back to the Terminal, type “unzip hidden.jpg” (or whatever file name you chose), and hit Enter. When you open it in any image editing program, it will appear to be a normal picture when you open it in an app like TextEdit, the hidden text will appear at the end.

As on Windows, we’re calling the finished image “hidden.jpg,” but you can change the file name to whatever you’d like. Next, type “cat picture.jpg secret.txt > hidden.jpg” and hit Enter. In Terminal, type “cd desktop” and hit Enter to switch to the desktop. Again, we’re calling the container image “picture.jpg and the hidden file “secret.txt,” although in this case, it could just as easily be “secret.zip.” Then launch the Terminal app (open Spotlight with Cmd+Space, type “terminal,” and select the correct app when it appears). First, move the files in question to the desktop. Over on macOS, you can pack a single text file or a zip file (an archive full of files of any type) into an image.
