You normally need your smartphone to make phone calls, view text messages, and access your photos. But wouldn't it be ...

Other than snapping selfies and mindlessly scrolling on social media, one thing you mainly do on your phone is texting. It is, after all, among the easiest ways to communicate, especially when you're ...

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Apple announced in March that it would support RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in a future software update. That “future update” is expected to be iOS 26–either in September or soon after. RCS 3.0 will ...

Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that it’s switching to Google Messages as the default messaging app on phones. The company said it was making this move to “accelerate the adoption” of RCS ...

In recent weeks, GIFs sent by iPhone users to Android devices running Google Messages have turned into distorted still images with missing dots/pixels throughout. This issue — with reports continuing ...

Google doesn't have the best track record when it comes to user privacy, but it's getting better. The company's messaging app, Google Messages, now comes pre-installed on most new Android devices and ...

Google is finally expanding the number of Android phones that can access Gemini through Google Messages. Previously, the feature was only available on certain Pixel devices, as well as Samsung Galaxy ...

Google is finally starting to roll out the ability for Android users to edit RCS messages sent to iPhones, a feature previously unavailable cross-platform. Made possible by the new Universal Profile 3 ...

Android’s RCS message capabilities are inching closer to iMessage’s. Google said today that you can now edit RCS messages, bringing parity with the iMessage editing feature Apple added two years ago.

Some users have reported that they can’t send or receive voice messages on WhatsApp. Some have reported that they cannot listen to the voice messages. This issue is reported to occur on Android, ...

When you snooze a conversation on Google Messages, it pauses notifications for that specific chat for 1 hour, 8 hours, 24 ...