Viber is another great Messenger alternative that has been around for a long time. It’s my main messaging app, and I really like it, although I’ll admit that the Chinese ownership is a cause for ...

Google Messages is a popular messaging app that takes your chat experience to a whole new level. With support for RCS messaging, you can enjoy enhanced features and capabilities compared to ...

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. When you open the app, you’ll apparently see a prompt that pushes you ...

In one way or another, most of us sacrifice elements of our privacy to use apps for free. We hand over our data to Big Tech in order to perform our jobs, consume content, communicate with others, and ...

A nationwide telecommunication outage largely affecting AT&T customers is also impacting both iPhone and Android users, but there are a number of messaging platforms that can help when cellphone ...

Messenger Lite was announced in October of 2016 and aimed at less-powerful Android devices. It eventually became available for all phones, but Meta is now killing Messenger Lite in September. For some ...

Since October 2016, Meta has offered the world a way to save on their smartphone's space and data consumption with the introduction of Messenger Lite, but this famed app will soon bid its farewell ...

Android users who rely on Google Messages will finally get one of iMessage's most beloved features, but it may not work ...