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, ...

Instead of providing iMessage on Android, Beeper now wants to organize all of your other chat apps into one hub app. Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and ...

Did you get an unwanted text from Cash App? The company is paying out a share of a $12.5 million settlement, but you must ...

Every time you need to talk to someone these days, you either use an instant messaging app or hop on your favorite social media platform. And why not? Not only are they convenient, but they also ...

Apple regularly adds new capabilities to its messaging app, and iOS/iPadOS 26 kicks in several helpful new features. Here’s how to tap into them all.

Text messaging was starting to feel outdated until recently. Other messaging apps offer a variety of features that bring messaging to the modern era. RCS brought SMS and MMS messaging to the modern ...

It's a surprisingly personal experience with real professionals on the other end.

T-Mobile is opening up its Text to 911 feature—which allows users to text emergency services through their phone's native messaging app when outside of coverage areas—to everyone, including AT&T and ...

Verizon subscribers who have been using the company’s Message+ texting app are now being forced to switch to an alternative, following the service’s discontinuation on Monday. The app is the latest ...

Mobile's T-Satellite service is that it allows 911 access for everyone, whether you're on T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon.

T-Mobile's 'Text to 911' service is available free of charge to anyone with a compatible smartphone. Here's how to sign up.