There's a bunch of great new features to check out. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac The Messages app gains flashy new features in iOS 26 that make group chats far more fun and efficient. It also ...

Apple has slowly been ramping up the number of ways you can personalize the look of your iPhone, and in iOS 26 that customization treatment makes its way into the Messages app. Once you download the ...

Apple is testing secure messaging between Android and iOS devices with iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The updates introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a security ...

Apple revealed iOS 26 at this year's WWDC, and one of the biggest new features making its debut in the upcoming release of iOS 26 is message filtering. This finally lets us take control of our ...

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

Apple added RCS support to iPhone with iOS 18.1, enabling richer cross-platform messaging between iPhone and Android users. This ...

The next iPhone software is just around the corner, but the first beta is out already and has significant changes.

When iOS 26 first dropped, there was one pretty huge group chat bug. Some users complained that their messages to existing group chats were sent as individual chats instead of chats to the entire ...

A new message filtering system in iOS 26 could hurt political fundraisers by sending texts from unknown numbers to a separate inbox without notifications. While the feature is opt-in, some political ...

Apple brought RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging to the iPhone with iOS 18 last year, giving green-bubble users access to more features and functions. But what exactly is possible with RCS on ...

Some users in the UK began seeing an age verification prompt after installing iOS 26.4 beta 2. Apple now says the message appeared in error.

Apple's iOS 26.4 beta is here with RCS encryption and music updates. However, Siri 2.0 is still missing ahead of the newly announced March 4 event.