If you want to change the color of chat bubbles in SMS messages, skip to the next section. This feature started rolling out to users in the Google Messages beta program in December 2023.

You don't have RCS chat by default if you have an iPhone. iMessage is the standard app which doesn't yet support RCS. But, RCS chat is expected to hit Apple's iOS 18, which doesn't have an ...

WhatsApp is synonymous with texting around the world, but unlike conventional SMS, it requires you to have an eligible account. That criterion will likely go out of fashion soon. According to a report ...

But, like SMS, Chat won’t be end-to-end encrypted, and it will follow the same legal intercept standards. In other words: it won’t be as secure as iMessage or Signal.

In iOS 18.4, Apple added a new Shortcuts action to open a specific conversation in the Messages app. This means it's now possible to open a chat thread with someone important to you straight from ...

I'll check next time I get an SMS But the far more important thing for me is to be able to wake the screen, and see my missed calls, SMSes, emails, FB notifications, etc., right there on the lock ...

With the rise of SMS, chat apps and omnichannel communications firms can have a 360-degree view of their customers. Better customer data and segmentation enable a more personal service.

When an iPhone user attempts to chat outside of iMessage and send a Tapback however, as a compatibility fallback the iPhone instead sends an SMS. iPhone users don’t normally see this frustration ...