Other than snapping selfies and mindlessly scrolling on social media, one thing you mainly do on your phone is texting. It is, after all, among the easiest ways to communicate, especially when you're ...

Leave the phone in the other room and send texts with a full-size keyboard This article describes how to send a text from a computer to a cell phone. The iMessage app on your iPhone or iPad is also ...

BOSTON - The FBI is warning that texts between Apple and Android devices could be intercepted by foreign hackers. Every second, 270,000 texts are fired off globally, and the FBI now warns the Chinese ...

After Hurricane Rita nailed Southeast Texas in 2005, the worst part for residents like the author was the inability to contact friends and family to both make sure they were okay and also reassure ...

There’s a new Priority Notifications feature in iOS 18.4 to ensure important messages and alerts get prominent Lock Screen placement. But a different feature entirely was added in a recent iOS update— ...

A problem has arisen in the iPhone and there are some things you can’t quite say when you’re sending an iMessage. If you do, it’ll refuse to send the voice message. The iPhone's Messages app Imagine, ...

Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links. With so much of our daily ...

Cloud Calendar invites are being abused to send callback phishing emails disguised as purchase notifications directly from ...

If you need another reason to stop doomscrolling, we’ve got one ready: It can lead to anxiety-inducing information you wish you didn’t see. Case in point for me: TikTok videos about how people can ...

My 20-year-old didn’t like that when they typed “excited” in a text message on their iPhone, iOS automatically seemed to apply a Ripple effect, part of the set of somewhat pointless Text Effects that ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...