Texting on Android at its absolute best ...

It looks as though Google Messages is getting real-time location sharing very soon, and there's a tweak to group chats too.

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

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 ...

RCS (“Chat features”) in Google Messages can be great when it works: typing indicators, better group chats, higher-quality media, and Wi‑Fi messaging in some cases. When it doesn’t work, the symptoms ...

Apple added RCS to the iPhone, but crucially, the current implementation lacks end-to-end encryption. That's changing in the latest beta.