Apple's default messaging app makes big assumptions about what you want to keep.

RCS, filters, mentions, and backgrounds help to modernize Messages. On every new iPhone, I check these settings and features ...

Activating iMessage on an iPhone with a phone number has been a problem for some users. If it’s a problem you’ve been having, here’s how to fix it. Apple iPhone 17 Pro and others are hit by iMessage ...

Apple’s iOS 27 beta fixes long-standing iPhone Messages complaints, from background sending issues to customizable text ...

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Apple’s Messages app got a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to eliminate spam texts. My initial experience with the feature wasn’t great, but tweaking ...

For many iPhone users, Messages might be among their most-used apps with the most saved data. Depending on your device settings, Messages can save conversations you had many years ago—complete with ...

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told Americans to stop sending standard text messages ...

Apple at this year's WWDC emphasized that its approach to iOS 27 development was to add fewer newer features and instead make existing features better. Examples of that approach can be seen across the ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...