Apple's default messaging app makes big assumptions about what you want to keep.

Verizon Messages (Message+) is a popular messaging app offered by the telecom giant, but it will shut down next month. The app, which has over 250 million users, allows you to sync your text ...

A problem has arisen in the iPhone and there are some things you can’t quite say when you’re sending an iMessage. If you do, it’ll refuse to send the voice message. The iPhone's Messages app Imagine, ...

The easiest way to send GIFs is to search for and use the selections available in the Messages app. Open the Messages app on your iPhone. Start a new message or select an existing thread. To search ...

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones. Texts between Apple devices in the Messages app, aka iMessages, have been ...

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 ...