Apple surprised everyone a few months ago when it announced that the Messages app would support RCS in addition to iMessage and SMS. That happened at a time when Google was relentlessly attacking the ...

Google has once again advertised the weakness of Android by begging Apple to enable RCS support in iMessage, a key feature of the iPhone. But Google is making a big fuss about something that's not a ...

Apple announced today that it will support RCS in 2024. This will bring encrypted chat support between iMessage and Google Messages. It is likely Apple is doing this to avoid going to court over it in ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Apple has enjoyed complete hegemony over blue message bubbles on the iPhone, but that's about to change. Nothing, the smartphone startup from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has announced Nothing Chat.

Apple is under pressure to open up its messaging platform. Now, Nothing says it has found a way to let people get iMessage support on its Android-based devices — but there’s a catch that seems to mean ...

Apple is shocking the world today by adopting the RCS messaging standard for iMessage. When iMessage users are talking to people off the service, iMessage will soon be able to fall back to the RCS ...

The Beeper saga continues, with the company now disabling the ability to connect to iMessage entirely after Apple banned some of its customers’ Macs for using the app. That last effort was a hurdle ...