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 more ...

Texting between iPhones and Androids used to be a slog. That's because Apple limited its users to SMS when messaging Androids, which stripped away many of the modern chat features we've gotten used to ...

Google Messages is rolling out message editing to iPhones. Users get a 15 minute window to edit sent messages. It's a long way from a wide release. Texting between Android and iPhones could get a ...

With the arrival of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhone last year, the experience of texting from iOS to Android improved dramatically. As Apple says on its website, RCS supports delivery ...

Phone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble, showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. But it's come a long way ...

Note that simultaneous releases of iOS 18 and iOS 26 versions won’t continue indefinitely. Apple usually runs the two ...