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

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

A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices -- provided you use Google Messages as your texting platform.

Google Messages can now blur nude images on Android Google is rolling out its Sensitive Content Warnings feature more broadly.

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be ...

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After seeing it in testing earlier this year, Google Messages has widely deployed the ability to delete RCS messages from recipients' devices.

The easiest choice is not always the safest one when it comes to the browser you use on your Android phone. Most people stick with whatever came preloaded, rarely questioning it.

T-Mobile's recent message about authorized users has some customers skeptical ...

Last year, Google announced it was accelerating Android’s release schedule. In the past, Google typically rolled out a single Android release each year with new APIs for developers. Starting in 2025, ...

Every now and then, you run into some genuinely surprising new Android option that actually makes you sit up and say: Whoaaaa. (Kindly apply an early-90s Keanu affectation onto that when reading it in ...

Amazon is preparing a major change to its long-running Fire tablet line, moving away from its proprietary Fire OS (based on Android, but still proprietary) and toward ...