RCS is the modern upgrade to SMS and MMS, bringing better photos, read receipts, typing indicators, group chats, and growing iPhone-Android support in 2026.

Google Messages is arguably one of the best text messaging applications out there, offering a lot of customization options. For instance, you can change the color of the text bubbles and utilize the ...

Digital legacy features make it easier to transfer account access to family members without sharing passwords up front. I'll show you how to get set up in minutes.

In its quest to beef up the feature set of its RCS-powered Messages application for Android, Google appears to now be beta testing a new @mentions texting function -- at least for a small subset of ...

GroupMe, a service that lets users start a group chat using text messages, announced today that it has raised $10.6 million in its second round of funding — but it won't be generating any kind of ...

I recently purchased a Murena Fairphone 6. There were sacrifices I expected to be made in switching to a privacy-centric, de-Googled version of Android–but I didn’t expect group texting to be one of ...

Shortly after its addition of direct messages this summer, Instagram Threads is adding support for group messaging with up to 50 people. The Meta-owned competitor to X, which now has more than 400 ...

Group text messaging is one of the 500 some-odd updates coming to Windows Phone 7 Mango. It’ll arrive inside the updated messaging hub and will even be smart enough to route messages to your contacts ...