You'll find Google Messages as the default messaging app on most new Android phones. So, it takes away the effort of hunting for a better texting app after the first boot. It's already there, ready to ...

Sheriff's officials are warning the public about an ongoing scam in which con artists have been impersonating fraud ...

Can you get hacked by responding to a text? This is likely a common question. Thankfully, the risks are easy to spot. Protection is easy too.

Google Messages shows check marks and other symbols on your texts to hint at what's happening behind the scenes. Here's what ...

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A massive Verizon outage Jan. 14, downed tens of thousands of Verizon phones, with Verizon customers eager to "fix" SOS mode on iPhones and turn off "Emergency Calls Only" on Samsung/Android phones.

A routine workday took an emotional turn for one dad after an unexpected text message appeared on his phone—sent not by his wife, but by their young son. Posting to Reddit’s r/daddit community, user u ...

A few years ago, we could only send plain text messages with 160 characters. There was no option to include any media or attachments, which kept the messages close to 140 bytes. But the Messages app ...

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Google is rolling out a new layer of protection for Android users, specifically teaching Circle to Search and Google Lens how to spot scam messages right on your screen. Since our messaging apps are ...

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