All change for iPhone Updated on May 5 as Apple confirms change to iPhone. Timing is everything. Excitement is building with Apple’s next iPhone update just days away. This is expected to bring a ...

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands ...

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.

In recent developments, six prominent messaging apps have decided to roll back their end-to-end encryption (E2EE) defaults, sparking significant debate and concern among users and cybersecurity ...

OS 26.5 is here with brand new features for users. Here are the new iOS 26.5 features available in three popular iPhone apps.

If you downloaded iOS 26.5, your device can now access the secure messaging protocol as long as your carrier supports it.

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Encryption offers an illusion of security. It feeds the notion that even governments, advertisers, or the platform would not be privy to the conversations. In many technical ways, that’s true. However ...

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social media platform. One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

RCS is the modern upgrade to SMS and MMS, bringing better photos, read receipts, typing indicators, group chats, and growing iPhone-Android support in 2026.