Want to use iMessage on an Android phone? A returning messaging app promises a more complete Apple-style experience, but there are caveats to know.

When iOS 27 arrives next month, you'll be able to reply to a specific green chat bubble (aka an Android message) in a ...

A messaging app has come up with maybe the least efficient alternative to WhatsApp imaginable: sending your texts by virtual carrier pigeon. Called Carrier Pidge, the iOS app deliberately makes ...

Exclusive: Adira says she doesn’t know much about her target countries or even know who their leaders are. Instead she’s chasing money from Meta, which pays for engagement ...

Sunbird Messaging returns to Android after its 2023 shutdown, with encryption fixes, a priority inbox, and an AI assistant ...

Jade Bryan is a Feature Author at Android Police with over a decade of tech reviews and news reporting experience, stretching back to the Symbian era and the early days of Android. He covers the ...

Users of Facebook Messenger are reporting an outage. As of July 22, 2026, at 10:03 a.m., there are 1,048 reports on Downdetector.com relating to the app not working. Reports are centered around the ...

X is taking another step toward Elon Musk’s vision of an “everything app.” The company has officially announced that XChat is now available on Android, expanding its standalone messaging app beyond ...

While most Android Auto users just want to use the platform for navigation and music, apps can provide extra value. Messaging apps, for instance, can be a useful way to access messages safely behind ...

Android is the one mobile platform where antivirus actually matters. Unlike iPhones, which lock apps into sandboxes so they can't touch each other or the system, Android gives you a lot more freedom, ...

Following The Android Show, Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio’s new capability to build native Android apps. The web-based AI Studio now lets you build native ...

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 ...