A peculiar message in a bottle recently surfaced on the shores of a remote Canadian island. The discovery was announced by the Sable Island National Park Reserve in a May 23 Facebook post. The small ...

The iOS 26.4.2 update is actually a big deal for privacy, even for people who use other messaging apps. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade for multiple publications, including Times Internet, Guiding Tech, Android ...

Earlier this year, Google Messages seemed to have settled on a new design for read receipts. The RCS app rolled that back, but is now pursuing one element of that big redesign. The major read receipts ...

Google’s had a messy relationship with messaging, with now-defunct platforms like Hangouts and Allo failing to achieve the kind of relevance and staying power enjoyed by competing services like ...

Karen Read wants access to “staggeringly” offensive texts between disgraced former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor — who investigated her for murder — and Canton Police Sgt. Sean ...

Samsung Messages is going away — and this time for good, with the app officially set to be discontinued in July 2026. When I got my Galaxy S26 last month, Samsung Messages wasn’t even pre-installed.

Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically from messaging apps ...

Article updated with statement from Signal thanking Apple for addressing the vulnerability. Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services ...

Meta is expanding its in-app AI-powered summaries feature on WhatsApp to include unread context across multiple chats. Here are the details. WhatsApp to expand in-app AI summaries As spotted by ...

Samsung is killing its messaging app in July. Users in the US with Android v12 or newer need to switch. There are plenty of superior options to choose from. Multiple reports have been issued that ...