iOS 18.4 arrived late last month packed with a variety of new features, including an upgrade you might have missed that provides a fast way to open your go-to conversations in the Messages app. Here’s ...

Google Messages Enhanced protection adds cloud Gemini scam analysis. See what data may leave your phone, what stays local, ...

Google Messages now lets you have up to 20 pinned conversations, up from the previous limit of 10. The expanded limit appears to be rolling out in the latest version of the app. Pinning keeps ...

A text exchange can look harmless at first and become dangerous only after trust has been established. Google Messages uses on-device and service-level signals to identify some conversations whose ...

Google Messages is quietly rolling out the ability to set custom chat themes for standard SMS conversations. Chat themes were previously limited to RCS chats in the messaging app. This change may have ...

Bring more life and personalization to your group chats, by adding backgrounds to your conversations in Messages in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. Here's how to change yours for the better. Messages is an ...