You can do much more with your Messages app than send texts.

A bunch of quality-of-life upgrades, plus a new Drawing app.

When an iPhone user receives a message from an Android phone, it shows up as a green bubble (not the more highly prized blue bubbles that appear when the message is from another iPhone). Now, a new ...

New iOS 27 iMessage features improve your chat experience with Android devices through RCS messaging support and more.

A new iOS 26.6 feature will alert you when a suspicious iMessage is detected, giving you the option to share it with Apple to help improve future defenses.

Apple is testing an iOS 26.6 security alert that warns users about malicious iMessages and lets them report suspicious ...

RCS, filters, mentions, and backgrounds help to modernize Messages. On every new iPhone, I check these settings and features first. There are a few Apple apps I constantly use, and Messages is one of ...

A problem has arisen in the iPhone and there are some things you can’t quite say when you’re sending an iMessage. If you do, it’ll refuse to send the voice message. The iPhone's Messages app Imagine, ...

Apple at this year's WWDC emphasized that its approach to iOS 27 development was to add fewer newer features and instead make existing features better. Examples of that approach can be seen across the ...

So, how do the two apps now compare in 2024? We’ll explore this, based on five criteria: user interface, compatibility, useful features, fun factor, and privacy and security. Without a doubt, Apple’s ...

iMessage kept Apple users loyal to the brand for years. Now it’s lagging behind competitors. If John Ternus can revive it, it ...