iMessage reply feature

Hello Rachel Ortiz,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. Based on your post, you'd like to know how to reply and then see the main conversation within the Messages app on your iPhone. We'll do our best to assist with this.

It sounds like you want to know how to get back to the conversation after replying to a specific message within the Apple Messages app. If that's the case, this covers the main steps on how to reply to a message: Reply to specific messages on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

To get back to the entire conversation, tap anywhere outside of the reply on the screen. Avoid tapping on the specific message you wish to reply to.

Note: If you tap outside of the reply window, it will go back to the main conversation. Which means, you'll only want to do this when you wish to return to the main conversation. Doing this mid reply, will reply to the entire conversation in real time, not the specific message. We hope that makes sense.

Let us know if that helps out, take care.