Open a browser and go to Google Messages. Sign in with your Google account details. When you enter your Google login information, it shows a random emoji. Open the Messages app on your smartphone.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) was introduced as a successor to traditional SMS (Short Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), promising a modern, feature-rich messaging experience ...

Samsung Messages being dead and gone also means it stopped receiving updates—including security updates. In other words, ...

If you buy a new phone, Google makes it easy to transfer most of your data, letting you pick up where you left off. However, text messages won't automatically be transferred to your new phone. So any ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. The technology underpinning early mobile text messaging began development in the 1980s. The short message service (SMS) ...