OS 27 beta 2 RCS upgrades bring native emoji reactions and inline replies to cross-platform chats, narrowing the Android-iOS ...

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told Americans to stop sending standard text messages ...

Apple's latest iOS update includes changes that improve texting between iPhone and Android. Here's what the update changes ...

With the second beta of iOS 27, Apple added support for replying to a specific message in an RCS conversation with an Android ...

Apple and Google start rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS chats in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users. Patrick Holland Managing Editor As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, ...

The new interface is designed to make message interactions quicker and less disruptive by displaying commonly used actions closer to the selected message instead of taking over a large portion of the ...

WhatsApp has started rolling out a new translation feature that enables Android and iPhone users to translate messages in chats, groups, and channel updates. While iOS users can only use it to ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is officially available, Apple confirmed today. Support is included in iOS 26.5, which is now available to everyone.

After a few months of beta testing with developers, Apple finally released (in beta) end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging to iPhone users with iOS 26.5. With that, you can message Android users without ...

Android 17 brings a new Android Switch experience that makes migrating your data, apps, and eSIM from iPhone completely ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. There’s a message setting on your smartphone that you’ve ...