Recovering deleted text messages on Android is difficult, and the best strategy is to have Google Drive back up your phone.

You can block unwanted text messages on an Android phone by blocking the phone number with just a few taps.

Google Messages isn't perfect. Although it offers the same set of features and functionality as other messaging apps, some of ...

It turns out Google Messages supports text formatting, but currently, only the integrated Gemini chatbot can use it to format its own replies. The hidden feature uses Markdown syntax, as seen when the ...

Google Messages is adding a trash folder for deleted texts, bringing it in line with iMessage and other messaging apps.

The FBI's guidelines recommended that users not send texts from iPhone to Android or vice versa because they were not securely encrypted. However, messages sent from iPhone to iPhone or Android to ...

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Translation is rolling out to iPhone and Android users, and will expand to support additional languages in the future.

Google's new data shows Android has better built-in anti-spam protections than the iPhone: AI defenses stop billions of spam ...