Apple’s Messages app scored a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a new ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to eliminate spam texts.

Here is why I stopped using the Google Messages feature despite it being a genius capability I once raved about. The ...

Apple revealed iOS 26 at this year's WWDC, and one of the biggest new features making its debut in the upcoming release of iOS 26 is message filtering. This finally lets us take control of our ...

Verizon's decision to discontinue its Message+ app, effective around June 2024, has left many users wondering how they will access their old messages and continue their messaging services. Here are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Updated on Dec. 3 with advice on other encrypted messaging platforms ...

Messaging is still one of the best ways to communicate with your friends and family. To send an SMS, all you need is a SIM card with an active messaging plan installed on your smartphone. But what if ...

The era of SMS and buggy MMS is coming to an end, and the torchbearer for mobile communication is going to be RCS. Championed by the likes of Google as a leveler for digital conversations, RCS — which ...

After countless ads and several years of Google’s pleading, RCS is an integral part of Apple’s Messages app. It wasn’t always that way, as I jumped on the experience almost immediately, activating it ...

WhatsApp is rolling out the ability for users to translate messages into their preferred language, the Meta-owned company announced on Tuesday. Now, if users see a message in a different language, ...

Fifteen years ago it was unfathomable – and a bad idea – to imagine that your digital messages could automatically self-destruct.. Once your message is on someone else’s machine, you simply cannot ...