iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...

Apple has blocked Beeper Mini, which lets Android users send blue-bubble texts to iPhones. The tech giant said the app “exploited fake credentials” and posed a security and privacy risk. The move has ...

iPhone users all recognize the distinct blue text bubble that pops up when an iMessage is fired off to a bestie, parent, sibling, or study group. When texting a fellow iPhone user, all messages sent ...

Lately, I’ve been turning my phone off in the evenings. It’s only for a couple of hours per day, but in this fast-paced modern world, that time feels as sacred as a spa trip. In an era of 'read ...

Apple's iOS 18 will support RCS this fall, improving texting between iPhone and Android users. But Android users will still show up as green text bubbles when messaging iPhones. Green text bubbles ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

You don't always have to look at dull colors when using Google Messages. You can spice things up by adding a new color ...

The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general sued Apple for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The 88-page complaint lays out the government’s case against Apple, ...

Michael Anderson, a tech consultant in San Francisco, considers himself an unapologetic Android user. It's something that would come up quite a bit in his love life. When he was single and using ...

Apple AAPL1.49%increase; green up pointing triangle plans to support a standard that will improve messaging with Android phones and enable new features, helping quell ...