For years, messaging between iPhone and Android users has felt like playing telephone through a tin can and string — ...

On Android, blue dots or chat icons show that RCS is enabled, giving you advanced texting features missing from traditional ...

When Apple released Messages with RCS support in iOS 18 last year, it was missing a key security feature: end-to-end encryption. At the time, Apple said it would wait until encryption was part of the ...

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Blue text bubbles on Android are from Google's Custom Bubbles feature, which let users change the color of message bubbles in ...

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 ...

A new version of RCS is on the way that will allow encrypted messaging between iOS and Android Apple has previously never ...

The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...

OS 26 could finally bring end-to-end encryption to RCS, securing conversations between iPhone and Android users with the MLS ...