Texting between iPhones and Android devices can be miserable. A new iOS setting stands to make it less painful. Apple’s iOS 18 software update supports Rich Communication Services, or RCS—the ...

If you’ve ever scrolled endlessly through your call log or text threads trying to remember the last time you rang your gran—or why-you’ll appreciate this.

Hit Add to save the shortcut.; Set Up Custom Text Shortcuts in SwiftKey. SwiftKey doesn’t come as the default keyboard on any Android phone. But it’s still a popular keyboard app among Android ...

Default text apps on Android (like Google Messages) even come with features similar to popular internet-based messaging apps — think voice messages, media support, and GIFs.

However, Messages for Web can go beyond just texting from your laptop — if you’ve got a tablet or an iOS device, you can text from there as well. It’s a potentially handy way for people with an ...

NEW YORK -- If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text from an iPhone to an Android phone, that text is green. On its surface, it ...