Had I known earlier, I would’ve thought twice before relying on the app. Here are six hidden sides of Google Messages I wish ...

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

For years, messaging between iPhone and Android users has felt like playing telephone through a tin can and string — ...

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

I drove through remote farmland and desolate corners of Lake Tahoe to try Verizon's Skylo service on a Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. Here's how it fared against a phone with T-Mobile's T-Satellite.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is designed for this moment. Instead of unfamiliar phone numbers, messages arrive with ...

Reports online suggest that RCS support vanished from Google Messages in multiple countries, with no fix in sight.

UPDATE (August 22, 2025): The Google Messages app now allows you to remotely delete text messages. Read more about it at the end of the article. Summary: Google Messages is a messaging service from ...

Enable RCS messaging on iPhone for better texting with Android phone. Also learn its benefits and things that it falls short of.

Google Messages can now unsend a message from everyone in a chat. Unsend only works in RCS chats between Android phones; messages to iPhones can't be unsent, only deleted locally. This follows a ...

Microsoft is about to pull the plug on Outlook Lite, a lightweight version of its email client that it released on Android back in 2022.

Biometrics for in-store payments are taking off; the next logical step is e-commerce. Here's how that may work.