Free text apps offer different features than the SMS texting app built into your iPhone or Android phone.

Unless everyone is using iMessage, there's no way to remove yourself from a group text — you'll need to mute or block it.

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 ...

Translation is rolling out to iPhone and Android users, and will expand to support additional languages in the future.

Google Messages is testing a 15-minute edit window for Android texts sent to iPhones, but the feature’s still a work in progress Google Messages is rolling out message editing to iPhones. Users get a ...