There's good news and bad news for iPhone owners with Android friends. First the bad: Apple will probably never bring iMessage to Android. But on the bright side, it doesn't need to. It's impossible ...

I've heard your pleas, and have had them myself. For iPhone owners who also use Windows, sending and receiving Messages from your desktop can take some finessing. I'll show you how I got it to work.

Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s WhatsApp are no longer just chat apps, they are the default social fabric for huge parts of the ...

After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back, ...

A bipartisan group of four US senators and representatives asked the Department of Justice whether Apple violated antitrust laws for shutting down an application that enabled Android devices to text ...

For a few years now Apple has offered developers a way to make apps that live within the Messages app on iPhones and iPads. The so-called iMessage apps allow people to interact with apps and content ...

Google just announced that Google Messages now offers full end-to-end encryption for all chats and that RCS is the new default instant messaging app on Android. That's amazing news for Android users, ...

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 should get an iPhone if you want an iMessage chatting experience and are on Android. That's what I and many others have told you, especially since the Beeper Mini saga started. That's the only way ...

Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...

As we shared this morning, the team behind the Beeper Mini iMessage for Android app has announced a plan that will let Android customers use a jailbroken iPhone to register a phone number with ...

When things go south with someone, they may suddenly cut off communication, blocking your phone number in the process. If an ...