As Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi proudly showed off a ton of new features for iMessage during Apple’s keynote at WWDC on Monday, the word Android never crossed ...

An Apple executive pushed the company to make iMessage available for Android back in 2013. The executive cited the threat of Google buying WhatsApp as a reason to steam ahead. A fellow Apple executive ...

RCS Messages Between iPhone and Android Get End-to-End Encryption With iOS 26.5 ...

Apple and Google have finally end-to-end encrypted RCS messages between their platforms — 18 months after the FBI warned those texts are not secure. But there’s a worrying angle to the coverage that ...

Updated on May 12 as Apple’s new messaging update goes live. It’s finally here. Almost 18-months after the FBI warned Americans to stop texting between iPhone and Android, Apple has fixed the problem.

While you can enjoy Microsoft and Google apps on iOS, the opposite is generally not true, with Apple keeping the majority of its apps and services locked away in its own ecosystem. It would be a safe ...

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

I'm an iPhone guy, having used Apple's smartphones from 2008's iPhone 3G onward. But that doesn't stop me from occasionally wondering how the other half lives. Because I test handsets for a living, I ...

Switching from an iPhone to an Android device is exciting, but it can also come with frustrating bumps along the way. Many users face unexpected problems such as delayed messages, missing texts, or ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today ...

Apple and Google start rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS chats in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users. Patrick Holland Managing Editor As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, ...