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.infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">iChat</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:IChat_AV_icon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/IChat_AV_icon.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="128" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a> (partial)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">24 August 2002<span class="noprint">; 22 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2002-08-24</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Messages_(Apple)" title="Messages (Apple)">Messages</a><br /><a href="/wiki/FaceTime" title="FaceTime">FaceTime</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">Instant messaging</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>iChat</b> (previously <b>iChat AV</b>) is a discontinued <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a> <a href="/wiki/Software_application" class="mw-redirect" title="Software application">software application</a> developed by <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> for use on its <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating system</a>. It supported instant text messaging over <a href="/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol">XMPP</a>/<a href="/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)" title="Jingle (protocol)">Jingle</a> or <a href="/wiki/OSCAR_protocol" title="OSCAR protocol">OSCAR</a> (<a href="/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="AOL Instant Messenger">AIM</a>) protocol, audio and video calling, and screen-sharing capabilities. It also allowed for local network discussion with users discovered through <a href="/wiki/Bonjour_(protocol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonjour (protocol)">Bonjour</a> protocols. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/OS_X_Mountain_Lion" title="OS X Mountain Lion">OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion</a>, iChat was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Messages_(Apple)" title="Messages (Apple)">Messages</a> for chat and <a href="/wiki/FaceTime" title="FaceTime">FaceTime</a> for video calling. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat was first released in August 2002 as part of <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.2" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X 10.2">Mac OS X 10.2</a>. It featured integration with the Address Book and Mail applications and was the first officially supported AIM client that was native to Mac OS X (the first-party AIM application at the time was still running in Classic emulation).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One episode of the first season of the <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> dramedy series <i><a href="/wiki/Entourage_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Entourage (U.S. TV series)">Entourage</a></i> had Eric Murphy having an iChat conversation with <a href="/wiki/Ari_Gold_(Entourage)" title="Ari Gold (Entourage)">Ari Gold</a>, marking the first time that this application was used on a television series. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interface">Interface</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Interface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat incorporated Apple's <a href="/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)" title="Aqua (user interface)">Aqua</a> interface and used <a href="/wiki/Speech_bubble" class="mw-redirect" title="Speech bubble">speech bubbles</a> and pictures to personify the online chatting experience. With iChat, green (available), yellow (idle), and red (away) icons could be displayed next to the name of each connected user on the buddy list. For color-blind users, this could be altered to show different shapes, circle (available), triangle (idle), and squares (away), to illustrate status with shape rather than color. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_AV">iChat AV</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: iChat AV"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2003, Apple announced iChat AV, the second major version of iChat. It added <a href="/wiki/Videoconferencing" class="mw-redirect" title="Videoconferencing">video</a> and <a href="/wiki/Voice_over_IP" title="Voice over IP">audio</a> conferencing capabilities based on the industry-standard <a href="/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol" title="Session Initiation Protocol">Session Initiation Protocol</a> (SIP). The final version of the software was shipped with <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Panther" title="Mac OS X Panther">Mac OS X 10.3</a> and became available separately on the same day for <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.2" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X 10.2">Mac OS X 10.2</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_AV_2">iChat AV 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: iChat AV 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2004, <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a> introduced <a href="/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="AOL Instant Messenger">AOL Instant Messenger</a> (AIM) version 5.5 for Windows users, which enabled video, but not audio, chats over the AIM protocol and was compatible with Apple's iChat AV. On the same day, Apple released a public beta of iChat AV 2.1 to allow Mac OS X users to video conference with AIM 5.5 users. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_AV_3">iChat AV 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: iChat AV 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2004, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a> announced that the next version of iChat AV would be included with <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger" title="Mac OS X Tiger">Mac OS X 10.4</a>. iChat AV 3 provided additional support to allow up to four people in a single video conference and ten people in an audio conference. Additionally, the new version of iChat used the <a href="/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC" class="mw-redirect" title="H.264/MPEG-4 AVC">H.264/AVC</a> codec, which offered superior quality video compared to the older <a href="/wiki/H.263" title="H.263">H.263</a> codec used in previous versions. This release supported the XMPP protocol, which could be directly used to connect to <a href="/wiki/Google_Talk" title="Google Talk">Google Talk</a> and indirectly be used to connect to users of services including <a href="/wiki/Facebook_features#Chat" class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook features">Facebook Chat</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Messenger">Yahoo! Messenger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, support was limited as it did not support several common XMPP features such as account creation, <a href="/wiki/Service_discovery" title="Service discovery">service discovery</a> and full multi-user chat support. iChat 3 included the <a href="/wiki/Bonjour_(software)" title="Bonjour (software)">Bonjour</a> protocol (previously called Rendezvous<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) which allowed iChat to automatically find other users with iChat Bonjour messaging enabled on the local network.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2005, iChat received support for encrypted communications, but only for paid subscribers of <a href="/wiki/.Mac" class="mw-redirect" title=".Mac">.Mac</a> (later <a href="/wiki/MobileMe" title="MobileMe">MobileMe</a> and currently <a href="/wiki/ICloud" title="ICloud">iCloud</a>) service. These features were part of iChat 3.1, released as part of the Mac OS X v10.4.3 update. This version also added support for XMPP multi-user chat. </p><p>In March 2007, Apple released the Mac OS X v10.4.9 update, which allowed <a href="/wiki/USB_video_device_class" title="USB video device class">USB video device class</a> (UVC) cameras to be used with iChat, rather than FireWire cameras only. This allowed a wider range of cameras to be used with iChat AV. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_4">iChat 4</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: iChat 4"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat 4, the first version release under iChat's current name, was introduced as a part of <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Leopard">Mac OS X 10.5</a> and received new features including: iChat Theater (inspired by ChatFX<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a product from Plum Amazing), Backdrops, and Screen Sharing. iChat Theater allowed users to share any file supported by <a href="/wiki/Quick_Look" title="Quick Look">Quick Look</a>, including photos, Keynote presentations, and movies, over a video chat session.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Backdrops allowed users to insert movies or photos as a backdrop in video chats. Screen Sharing allowed two users of Mac OS X Leopard to have control of the same desktop and work collaboratively. Minor features in the new release included multiple logins, animated icons, use of <a href="/wiki/Photo_Booth" title="Photo Booth">Photo Booth</a> effects in live video chat, and tabbed chats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_5">iChat 5</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: iChat 5"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat 5.0, released with <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard" title="Mac OS X Snow Leopard">Mac OS X 10.6</a>, reduced the bandwidth required for 640×480 video chats and upgraded iChat Theater to the same resolution.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="iChat_6">iChat 6</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: iChat 6"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat 6.0, released with <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Lion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X Lion">Mac OS X 10.7</a>, added support for Yahoo Messenger account and allowed iChat users to have text, voice and video chats using their Yahoo Mail accounts. It also supported third-party plugins, eventually allowing other protocols to be compatible with the software.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> iChat 6 was the last iChat version; in <a href="/wiki/OS_X_Mountain_Lion" title="OS X Mountain Lion">OS X Mountain Lion</a>, it was replaced by Messages. The final release, iChat 6.0.1, was published on February 1, 2012. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Messages">Messages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Messages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Messages_(Apple)" title="Messages (Apple)">Messages (Apple)</a></div> <p>As part of the OS X Mountain Lion preview, Apple announced on February 16, 2012, that its <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">OS X</a> messaging client would be <b>Messages</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that it would support the <a href="/wiki/IMessage" title="IMessage">iMessage</a> protocol, making it compatible with the iOS client. Messages also incorporates <a href="/wiki/FaceTime" title="FaceTime">FaceTime</a> support. Apple made Messages immediately available as a downloadable beta version for use on Mac OS X 10.7. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Supported_protocols">Supported protocols</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Supported protocols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>iChat's AIM support was fully endorsed by <a href="/wiki/America_Online" class="mw-redirect" title="America Online">AOL</a>, and used their official implementation of the AIM <a href="/wiki/OSCAR_protocol" title="OSCAR protocol">OSCAR protocol</a>. Using a XMPP transport,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> iChat could serve as a <a href="/wiki/Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)">client</a> for <a href="/wiki/AOL_Instant_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="AOL Instant Messenger">AOL Instant Messenger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Messenger">Yahoo! Messenger</a>, <a href="/wiki/MobileMe" title="MobileMe">MobileMe</a>, <a href="/wiki/ICQ" title="ICQ">ICQ</a> and <a href="/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol">XMPP</a>. iChat could also integrate <a href="/wiki/Google_Talk" title="Google Talk">Google Talk</a> contacts into the XMPP pane. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of instant messaging clients">Comparison of instant messaging clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_protocols" title="Comparison of instant messaging protocols">Comparison of instant messaging protocols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FaceTime" title="FaceTime">FaceTime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Messages_(Apple)" title="Messages (Apple)">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_conferencing" class="mw-redirect" title="Video conferencing">Video conferencing</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=IChat&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mac_App_Store" title="Mac App Store">App Store</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Automator_(macOS)" title="Automator (macOS)">Automator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calculator_(Apple)" title="Calculator (Apple)">Calculator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calendar_(Apple)" title="Calendar (Apple)">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_built-in_macOS_apps#Chess" title="List of built-in macOS apps">Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contacts_(Apple)" title="Contacts (Apple)">Contacts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Control_Center_(Apple)" title="Control Center (Apple)">Control Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_(software)" title="Dictionary (software)">Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DVD_Player_(macOS)" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD Player (macOS)">DVD Player</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FaceTime" title="FaceTime">FaceTime</a></li> <li><a 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title="Bluetooth File Exchange">Bluetooth File Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)" title="Boot Camp (software)">Boot Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ColorSync" title="ColorSync">ColorSync</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apple_Configurator" title="Apple Configurator">Configurator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_built-in_macOS_apps#Console" title="List of built-in macOS apps">Console</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_built-in_macOS_apps#Crash_Reporter" title="List of built-in macOS apps">Crash Reporter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digital_Color_Meter" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Color Meter">Digital Color Meter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Directory_Utility" class="mw-redirect" title="Directory Utility">Directory Utility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DiskImageMounter" class="mw-redirect" title="DiskImageMounter">DiskImageMounter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disk_Utility" title="Disk Utility">Disk Utility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Font_Book" title="Font 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