Discover iMessage features you probably aren’t using, from scheduling texts to Check In, audio transcriptions, and pinned conversations.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. It has been the tech story of the month, overshadowing the ...

Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s WhatsApp are no longer just chat apps, they are the default social fabric for huge parts of the ...

Apple’s Messages app may have lost the global messaging wars, but in many countries–including the U.S.–it’s still an incredibly popular way of communicating. That’s why Apple keeps upgrading it. This ...

The Signal encrypted messaging application is seen on a mobile device in this illustration photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on 26 March, 2025. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto) I don’t know very much ...

iOS 18 is bringing major changes to the Messages app, with Apple adding Tapback reaction changes new formatting, updated effects, satellite support, better texting with green bubble people, and ...

If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola ...

Apple's walled garden may be unraveling following pressure from the European Union, but with features like USB-C finally coming to the iPhone, the consumers keep winning. Despite the release of RCS on ...

Apple's walled garden of software and hardware products is what makes it extremely strenuous to try to enjoy devices and services out of this bubble. iMessage is a great example of a service that has ...

You probably don’t think about how your messages are protected, but you should. I don’t know very much about what goes into war planning, but I assume that the communications infrastructure that ...