If you use both an Android phone and Apple devices, an Apple service usually irrelevant to your cross-platform life can quietly make a mess of your messages. For people who stick to iPhones, iPads and ...

For now, Texts is available as a desktop client on the Mac, Windows, and Linux. Texts says an iPhone version of the app is currently in development. They also say that each platform maintains the same ...

Jules joined the Android Police team in 2019. He currently produces videos, creates art for our stories, and edits our podcast. Before that, he wrote features and news, managed our weekend content, ...

Apple could add new text effects to iMessage in iOS 18. One of the effects reportedly includes the ability to animate individual words in a message. If you’re curious about how to bold text in ...

Discover iMessage features you probably aren’t using, from scheduling texts to Check In, audio transcriptions, and pinned conversations.

The Secret Service is considering preventing employees from using iMessage on agency iPhones in the future, with claims the loss of text messages relating to the January 6 Capitol insurrection were ...

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 ...

Did you hear the news? Texting just got a lot more customizable. During Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2024) on Monday, Apple announced new iOS 18 features for iMessage and Mail, ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Earlier this year, Google rolled out a workaround for the way iPhones handle message reactions sent to Android phones: its ...

Apple was sued last week by a former customer who claims she could no longer receive texts on her new Samsung phone because texts to her phone number get held hostage in Apple’s iMessage system. We’ve ...

Google Messages Preparing iMessage-Like Reaction 'Fallback' Texts RCS-enabled Android devices could soon offer built-in reactions; however, all other smartphones, including Apple's iPhone, will ...

Google has recently begun making progress toward bringing reactions to RCS, or at least their version of RCS in the Google Messages app. In the latest salvo in the petty war of blue bubble vs green ...