After a few failed attempts at building wider social networks, Apple has hit upon a smaller-scale strategy that allows users to share items to the big social sites with ease, and on a more personal level as well.
Craig Federighi defended the decision to not develop Messages for Android, saying it would never get a mass audience, and had Apple done it, it would have hampered innovation.
Clear up additional space on your iPhone and iCloud by managing your iMessage storage.
Most of us have mistakenly sent Messages to the wrong person, and all of us have made typing mistakes. Here's how you can put an end to both of those, on iOS 16.
That unread messages tally can get out of control. Here's how to deal with them all in seconds, by quickly marking all text messages as read in iOS 16.
Apple has made collaborating with others easier with iMessage in iOS 16, allowing users to invite others to collaborate on a project and get real-time updates on the changes made. Here's how to get started.
Tim Cook has responded about why Apple hasn't adopted RCS messaging, claiming it isn't of interest to Apple users — and urging people to buy iPhones.
If there's a link in a Messages conversation you want to refer to in the future, here's how to keep track of important information by pinning them in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16.1.
Default messaging apps like iMessage are not always the best to use when you know that there are people in the chat using other operating systems. Here are the best cross-platform messaging apps that can help with the problems that have haunted text messengers for years.
Messages apps on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 allow you to collaborate with others, share interesting finds, play games, and decorate your chat with stickers. Here's what you need to know to get started using them.
Other than on the initial notification, Messages doesn't tell you the time that a message arrived. Here's how to read the timestamps of your Messages on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Android has launched a new website highlighting some of the challenges in interoperability between Android and iOS — and has urged Apple to adopt RCS to address it.
Again presenting RCS as the solution to getting Apple Messages and Android text users feature parity, Google has tweeted an "unofficial lyric explainer" about Drake's "Texts Go Green" song.
Apple has stated that users will be able to edit and unsend texts to other iPhone users via Messages — but there's good reason to be cautious about the feature.
In iOS 16, you'll be able to edit and unsend texts sent through the Messages app — but there is a time limit.
A Google vice president claims that Apple is deliberately seeding "peer pressure and bullying" in its Messages app to get Android users to switch to iPhone.
An apparent bug in Apple's Messages app in iOS 15 could be sending read receipts to your contacts, even if you've disabled them universally or for specific people.
Enabling low-quality image mode in iMessage can help you use less data, preserve battery life, and send images when your connection is less than ideal. Here's how to use it.
A Google Messages update rolling out now enables Android device users to see iMessage reactions as attached emoji instead of confusing strings of inline text.
A Google SVP in a tweet Thursday extended an "open invitation" to assist Apple should it choose to support Rich Communication Services (RCS), which is primed to succeed SMS as the next mobile-to-mobile text standard.
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