Messaging on Android has always felt like a work in progress. While iPhone users have long enjoyed the simplicity and cohesiveness of iMessage, Android users continue to juggle multiple apps, ...

Rolling out to some users in beta ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

How to upgrade Google Messages in under five minutes ...

T-Mobile users who upgraded to the latest Android 15 beta have discovered a page that tells them whether their account is eligible for satellite messaging. This page was first spotted in an Android ...

Apple today is rolling out iOS 18 with support for RCS in a huge boost to the iPhone-Android messaging experience. Rich Communications Services (RCS) is an upgrade to SMS/MMS that supports features ...

Apple added RCS to the iPhone, but crucially, the current implementation lacks end-to-end encryption. That's changing in the latest beta.

RCS messaging isn’t the silver bullet for cross-platform communications that it ought to be, but it’s a start – especially for iPhone-heavy regions where messaging can be an ordeal. What can you do ...

RCS (“Chat features”) in Google Messages can be great when it works: typing indicators, better group chats, higher-quality media, and Wi‑Fi messaging in some cases. When it doesn’t work, the symptoms ...