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

You can mark any message as unread on Signal in the Android and iPhone versions of the secure-messaging app.

WhatsApp on Android Auto offers the convenient option to play all texts aloud, including new notifications and those received ...

We've all been here before. All of us have, at one point or another, accidentally deleted an important text. Gloria, from Chepachet, Rhode Island, reached out to us with this question: "I accidentally ...

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 ...

T-Satellite, the Starlink-based satellite service, can now do more than just send text messages. Here are the apps that work when you're out of cellular range.

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

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 can now unsend a message from everyone in a chat. Unsend only works in RCS chats between Android phones; messages to iPhones can't be unsent, only deleted locally. This follows a ...

Given how competent and powerful smartphones have become, it is easy to take for granted essential tasks they handle, like voice calling or text messaging. In the event of an internet outage, the SMS ...

When you're off the grid, several apps can now communicate directly over T-Mobile's Starlink-based satellite service.