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Getting started: BBM
How to: BBM
Status and profile
Change your status
Show what you're listening to
Create, edit, or delete a custom status
Change your display picture or display name
Chats
Start a chat
Send a file to a contact
View a larger version of a picture that you received
Ping a contact
Send your GPS location to a contact
Add more contacts to a chat
Send a broadcast message
Switch chats
Email, copy, or clear a chat
End a chat
Chat options
Turn on chat history
Change chat bubble colors
Change voice note options
Prevent chats from appearing in the Messages application
Turn off ping vibration
Adding or deleting contacts
Add a contact by scanning a barcode
Add a contact by typing an email address or PIN
Add a contact that uses text messaging
Display your profile barcode on your smartphone
Receive text messages from your BBM contacts in BBM
Start asking a security question when adding contacts
Delete a contact
Unignore a contact
Working with contacts
Search for a contact
View a contact's profile
Rename a contact
Change a contact's display picture
Link a contact with the Contacts app
Receive notification when a contact becomes available
View, search, or delete the chat history for a contact
Add a contact category
Move a contact to another contact category
Rename or delete a contact category
Add a contact to the Home screen of your smartphone
Overwrite contact pictures with display pictures
BBM connected apps
About BBM connected apps
Post recent app activities to your BBM profile
Ignore invitations to become a BBM contact
Unignore application invitations from a contact
Disconnect an app from BBM
BBM Groups
Getting started with BBM Groups
About BBM Groups
Create a group
Join a group by scanning a barcode
Send a chat, picture, or list to a person that is not a member of the group
Add a group to the Home screen of your smartphone
Change group options
Members
Invite a BBM contact to join a group
Add a member by scanning a barcode
Add a member by typing an email address or PIN
Display the group barcode on your smartphone
Invite a member to become a BBM contact
Delete a member from a group
Leave a group
Group chats
Participate in a group chat
Start a new group chat
Delete a group chat
Pictures
About pictures
Share a picture with a group
Discuss a picture
Mark a picture as a favorite
Add or replace a voice note
Play a voice note
Change a caption
Delete a picture from a group
Lists
About lists
Create a list
Discuss a list
Add a list item
Change a list item
Sort a list
Delete one or more list items
Restore a list item
Delete a list
Group calendar
About the group calendar
Create an appointment
Change an appointment
View all group appointments
Delete an appointment
Group administration
About group administrators
Set an administrator password
Change the administrator password
Assign or remove administrator permissions
Become an administrator
Delete a group
Contact list backup
About backing up your BBM contact list
Register an email address with BBM
Remove a registered email address from BBM
Restore your BBM contact list over the wireless network
Create a backup file of your BBM contact list
Restore your BBM contact list using a backup file
Delete backup files of your BBM contact list
View activity updates
Change the options for activity updates
Check for the latest version of BBM
Tips: BBM
Personalize: BBM
Troubleshooting: BBM
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Create, edit, or delete a custom status
On the contact list screen, press the
key >
View My Profile
.
Click the
Status
field.
To create a custom status, click
Personalize Status
. Type a status. If necessary, select the
Show busy icon
check box. Click
OK
.
To edit a custom status, highlight a status. Press the
key >
Edit
. Update the status. Click
OK
.
To delete a custom status, highlight a status. Press the
key >
Delete
.
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