Old messages could be slowing your phone down, especially if you let them build up for long periods. The solution for this ...

QUESTION: Why don’t some Android users get my iPhone text messages? ANSWER: Text messaging was once considered an anti-social communication method by those who grew up having phone conversations as ...

Rich Communication Services is Google's modernization of SMS and MMS for Android. It offers read receipts, typing indicators, and end-to-end encryption, positioning it as a secure ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...

If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an Android phone, that text is green. On its surface, it may seem like no ...

Google Messages is adding the ability to edit messages after they're sent, which will initially bring more flexibility for texts between Android phones. The new edit feature was announced in a ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Google Fi users can now access RCS messaging on the web, enabling richer Android texting, but is the new dual-site setup ...

The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...

Apple's iOS 18 will support RCS this fall, improving texting between iPhone and Android users. But Android users will still show up as green text bubbles when messaging iPhones. Green text bubbles ...