The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don’t have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost. They work with different types of phones, ...

There are many reasons for wanting to print out a text message. Maybe someone sent you some exciting news via SMS, and you'd like to print it out and pin it on your bulletin board. Or maybe someone ...

Signal is widely regarded as the gold standard for secure messaging. It uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for all person-to-person and group chats, as well as voice and video calls. This ...

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 ...

We've all been here before. All of us have, at one point or another, accidentally deleted an important text. Gloria, from Chepachet, Rhode Island, reached out to us with this question: "I accidentally ...

To set up custom text shortcuts on Android, use your keyboard’s settings. For Gboard, go to Settings > Dictionary > Personal Dictionary, then add a word and its shortcut. On Samsung Keyboard, navigate ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...