On Android, blue dots or chat icons show that RCS is enabled, giving you advanced texting features missing from traditional ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Texting between iPhones and Android devices can be miserable. A new iOS setting stands to make it less painful. Apple’s iOS ...

Blue text bubbles on Android are from Google's Custom Bubbles feature, which let users change the color of message bubbles in ...

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 ...

To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

The long-standing divide between iPhone and Android users in text messaging has finally been bridged. With yesterday's release of iOS 18, iPhones can now send RCS (Rich Communication Services) ...

OS 26 could finally bring end-to-end encryption to RCS, securing conversations between iPhone and Android users with the MLS ...

The FBI‘s warning to iPhone and Android users to stop texting has sparked widespread concern about digital communication security. While details remain complex, the advisory points to critical ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...