Republished on May 20 with comments on new messaging deal in U.S. and news of WhatsApp’s largest ever marketing campaign as messaging battle heats up. It was all going so well — to an extent.

Apple’s Messages app could be about to get much better, if a promise that Apple made earlier in the year comes good at WWDC, the company’s big developer conference that kicks off on Monday, June 9.

Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s WhatsApp are no longer just chat apps, they are the default social fabric for huge parts of the ...

Apple previously confirmed plans to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages in a future software update We’ve now spotted code that suggests end-to-end encryption could be coming to RCS messages on ...

For the first time on an iPhone, you can set WhatsApp as the default calling and messaging app. The feature remains exclusive to the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS, but should soon expand to the public ...

A few days ago, Apple published documentation for a new framework designed to simplify the transfer of third-party app data between iOS and Android. Here’s how it’ll work. AppMigrationKit to allow ‘a ...

Messages for web is undergoing an important backend change, particularly for users on Google Fi. Instead of relying on older ...