Google Messages has improved in recent years, but it's missing something that all rival messaging platforms offer.

The rise of RCS on Android in recent years has made traditional text messaging leaps and bounds better than it once used to be. You can now send high-quality photos and videos, react to messages, and ...

Fix #2: Reboot your device. If the Android Messages app keeps crashing, one of the basic things that you must do as a user is to ensure that you reboot your device. This troubleshooting step is an ...

The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...

Here's how to use Circle to Search to identify scam texts on Android, plus how Google Lens can help if Circle to Search isn't ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. The Android additions include editing your ...

The FBI warns that malicious actors are now sending fraudulent messages pretending to be from “senior U.S. officials,” but ...

Android malware operations evolve with droppers SMS theft and remote access tools spreading fast and risking user data and ...

If you're using one of the most common apps to manage text chats on an Android phone, you'll see a small blue dot appear next to certain conversations. In other cases, a different symbol, such as a ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Just got a new smartphone for Christmas or another holiday? Here are 5 Android apps we think you should install on a new ...

With the launch of Android Auto 11.4, Google is making its AI message summaries available to all users. Here’s how the feature works. AI messages summaries were first announced by Google earlier this ...