OS 26.5 is coming soon with brand new features for users. Here are the new iOS 26.5 features coming to three popular iPhone apps.

Apple changed the messaging landscape in 2011, enabling full encryption for its new iMessage platform from the start. It seems extraordinary that it has taken a further 15-years to bring us to the ...

Samsung has confirmed it is now shutting down its Messages app. Starting in July, it will be removed from app stores and will ...

TexterID, the messaging compliance and verification startup, today announced the general availability of RCS Launch Manager, a comprehensive platform that streamlines the onboarding of brands onto the ...

Like other Google apps, Messages for Android A/B tests many features. It can take the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to ...

One of the perks of using instant messengers like WhatsApp is that you can send documents in PDF format. This is useful for sharing tickets to movies or events, flight tickets, invoices, receipts, and ...

With RCS messaging, you get features like typing indicators and the "Delivered" status message while messaging Android users. It also helps ensure high-quality videos and pictures are sent when ...

The iOS 26.5 beta brings back an option to enable end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on your device. When Apple brought RCS ...

Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End ...

With the release of iOS 16, Apple sees its Messages app pick up a slew of notable updates with one notable exception: RCS (Rich Chat Services). Despite Google’s continued attempts at public shaming, ...

If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola ...