Otherwise, Google implies this redesign across the Android user experience is meant to “connect with people on an emotional level.” That includes using various colors and shapes to highlight important ...

Apple plans to add a new text effects feature to the Messages app on iOS 18, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While it is already possible to send iMessages with bubble ...

For years, the dreaded green bubble has been a thorn in the side ... release — photos and videos you send to non-iOS devices via text message will not be nearly as compressed and will arrive ...

Hopefully as we get closer to iOS 18's official launch this fall, that discrepancy will get worked out. However, much like how a failed iMessage text will also default to SMS, having SMS and MMS ...

OS has come a long way from its locked-down days, but it’s still missing some great features Android users have enjoyed for ...

RCS is a newer, more capable text message protocol that serves as a successor to SMS and MMS. Essentially, by adding RCS support in iOS 18 ... Your blue bubble conversations don’t change.

For one, the green bubble lives on. It’s not even a different ... I don’t have access to any of iOS 18’s new text formatting options when I’m in an RCS chat, for instance, and if I send ...

Texting Android phones from an iPhone is finally getting a lot less stupid. After years of complaining from people on both sides of the fence, Apple is finally bringing RCS to the iPhone.

One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally implement the Rich Communications Services (RCS) communication protocol, something that is slowly helping to fix ...

We can show you how to schedule texts in iOS 18, so that you can ... hit the send button in the text field. Your message will appear in a clear bubble with its scheduled send time.