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RCS, filters, mentions, and backgrounds help to modernize Messages. On every new iPhone, I check these settings and features ...

Google Messages has started rolling out custom "Chat themes" with customizable backgrounds. The update appears in the chat ...

People badly underestimate how interested others are in connecting—and how good a deeper conversation will actually feel, ...

With the second iOS 27 developer beta, users can now long-press or swipe to reply to an RCS message and send an inline reply, ...

A college student in Michigan received a threatening response during a chat with Google's AI chatbot Gemini. In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, ...

Coming off the court following the greatest win in New York Knicks history, guard Jalen Brunson had something even more important on his mind at his NBA Finals postgame news conference. Brunson wanted ...

After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system. The aim is to let people “connect over their favorite videos directly on YouTube.” Once ...

With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

The Poke app will give Siri even more competition, as it lets you send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, right from the Apple Messages app. Following its public launch in March 2026, ...