The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Messages for web is undergoing an important backend change, particularly for users on Google Fi. Instead of relying on older ...

QUESTION: Why don’t some Android users get my iPhone text messages? ANSWER: Text messaging was once considered an anti-social communication method by those who grew up having phone conversations as ...

Sometimes, the phone you use every day holds some powerful features – they might just be hidden or unknown to you. When ...

To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...

A group of app developers are working on ways to bridge the blue/green divide. NEW YORK -- If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text ...