The rise of online instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, and Facebook Messenger has brought about several improvements and reasons to never look back to using traditional SMS. We ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

SMS Backup and Restore is still one of the best for backing up Android text messages—and in this guide, I'll also walk you ...

If you have an Android-based phone or a Google account, you may use Google Messages as your primary platform for text messages. Here's how to check if your message was archived within Google Messages.

There are many reasons for wanting to print out a text message. Maybe someone sent you some exciting news via SMS, and you'd like to print it out and pin it on your bulletin board. Or maybe someone ...

Google Messages may not be the best messaging app in every scenario, but it offers a plethora of features, enough to get the ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. The Android additions include editing your ...

Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

When you hang around Android long enough, you start to sense a persistent three-step pattern: A promising new system-level feature comes along with a splashy on-stage demo and availability ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...