Google Messages shows check marks and other symbols on your texts to hint at what's happening behind the scenes. Here's what ...

If your iMessage doesn't say Delivered it could mean that the recipient’s phone is off or out of battery. If the recipient has other Apple devices set up to receive messages, it might say Delivered ...

Last year, Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the ...

Google is working on a new user interface for Messages that’ll swap the hamburger menu for a context menu. The updated context menu will centralize buttons for sharing and selecting chats, making them ...

In iOS 26, Apple has introduced enhanced message filtering that gives you more control over unwanted texts, separating spam messages from unknown senders into distinct categories. Here's how to set up ...

Google Messages is getting a backup and restore option, and we were able to activate the feature. This should be a more convenient way to back up your chat history than the current Google One solution ...

Apple's iOS 26 finally brings custom conversation backgrounds to the Messages app, letting you personalize your chats with photos, colors, or images generated by Image Playground. Third-party ...

If your Messages inbox is catching a lot of stray, unwanted messages, we'll show you how to filter, report, and block spam ...

Apple’s Messages is one of the most used iPhone apps for many of us. It got a big iOS 18 update not long ago, but now even more change has arrived in iOS 18.2 thanks to several key Apple Intelligence ...

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