The idea of iMessage for Android sounds like a pipe dream, and for the most part, it is. Apps like AirMessage and Bleeper do make it possible to get iMessage on your Android phone today, but they ...

One of the best messaging apps for Android, Google Messages has received plenty of interesting capabilities recently, like the ability to copy only a particular part of a message, a new way to learn ...

Photon raised $4.5 million in seed funding to expand its messaging infrastructure platform for AI agents across channels ...

Apple’s iMessage may come preloaded on every iPhone it sells, but this week’s news has confirmed that unless you live in the US, that’s now fairly irrelevant. This isn’t news—that iMessage has become ...

szn, a new AI agent from former Siri and Apple Intelligence engineer Nikhil Gupta, lives right inside an iMessage thread on your iPhone 18 Pro Max, where it can browse websites, buy things and ...

Apple’s iMessage is making headlines again, as the blue/green bubble debate takes another twist. But these headlines come with a serious new warning for the billion ...

The messaging experience is one of the main points of contention in the iOS/Android conflicts, which are as old as their parent companies. iPhone-to-Android texting is not very seamless, especially ...

Android users’ hopes that Apple’s iMessage would be forced to open up in the European Union have been dashed. Bloomberg reports that iMessage won’t qualify for the EU’s new “Digital Markets Act,” ...

I’ve been an avid fan of Apple’s iMessage platform since it first came along in 2011, and there’s no doubt that Apple was way ahead of the curve in developing an integrated rich messaging system. But ...

Apple’s exclusive iMessage club got some newcomers late last year, thanks to Beeper Mini, an Android app that gives non-iPhones access to the blue bubble treatment. This means that an Android device ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...