This is your friendly reminder that the federal government will be conducting an emergency alert test on phones nationwide on Wednesday. NPR reported that these emergency “test messages” will produce ...

Federal workers were caught off guard Thursday by a mysterious email with the subject line "Email Test." "This is a test of a new distribution and response list," the email read. It included a link to ...

WhatsApp is finally catching up to rivals with disappearing messages.

If you’re like me and often read a message, tell yourself you’ll reply later, and then instantly forget about it, a new WhatsApp experiment might bring the solution. According to recent findings by ...

If your phone is being blown up by the Xbox app right now, you're not alone. Around 12:30 p.m. ET, users began receiving a flurry of pop-up app alerts that all read: This is a dummy test message sent ...

WhatsApp has always let you send messages that vanish on a timer, but the clock starts the moment you hit send, not when the other person actually read it. That means a message could sit unread for ...

(RTTNews) - Meta-owned WhatsApp is currently testing a new feature in Android v2.24.15.5 that will enable users to translate messages into different languages directly within the app. The new feature ...

If you heard your phone blurt out alarming tones this afternoon, you probably know by now that it was just a test. If you don't, it's safe to come out of your bunker. The federal government conducted ...

Popular Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp may soon introduce new message limits that could cut down on spam. According to TechCrunch, WhatsApp is testing a feature that restricts the number of ...

Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency ...

Google is trying out a new design for read receipts in Google Messages. The read receipts are now inside the message bubble. They appear on the right side, inside a circle that is a bit lighter than ...