Apple regularly adds new capabilities to its messaging app, and iOS/iPadOS 26 kicks in several helpful new features. Here’s ...

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Apple’s iOS 26 update, released in mid-September 2025, has revolutionized the iPhone Messages app, blending sleek design with ...

Texts, instant messages, video calls, Snapchats, Facebook messages, direct tweets or Instagrams — with so many ways to communicate electronically, one would think that all the variations have been ...

If you don’t use secure messaging apps, now is a good time to start. U.S. officials say a massive Chinese hacking campaign, dubbed Salt Typhoon, has compromised the communications of an unknown number ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.