Signal Messenger rolled out a new feature on its app, and it does not require a person to retain their old phone numbers to keep a conversation on one's account. Users can change phone numbers now and ...

Ever since iOS 18, RCS messaging has officially been supported in the iOS Messages app—specifically, via the RCS Universal ...

Not sure whether to use iMessage, Messenger, or WhatsApp? Each app has its own strengths — from Apple-exclusive features and social integration to global reach and privacy. Here’s how to decide which ...

Yahoo Messenger is one of the more popular chat clients, boasting millions upon millions of users. Connecting and communicating with those multitudes gets a wee bit easier with the free Yahoo ...

To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now. Along the way, it supplemented its original text-based ...

People in the United States are using their cell phones more often to send terse 160-character messages to other cell phones, a trend already wildly popular overseas. There are 750 million of these ...

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 ...

We break down how to instantly share your photos and surf social media with friends on Facebook's chat platform. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home ...

During its iPhone Software Roadmap event on Thursday, Apple invited several developers on stage to demonstrate work-in-progress versions of some of the first third-party native iPhone applications ...

I was surprised when I first read reports that Apple was teaming up with Globalstar to provide satellite messaging services on the iPhone 14 and newer models. I had last used a Globalstar-powered ...