Our editors hand-picked these products based on our tests and reviews. Read now Google announced today two updates for Messages, the default SMS app in the Android mobile operating system. Starting ...

Google has announced a new Play Store policy meant to prevent intrusive Android apps from collecting call log and SMS information from users' devices. According to Google, only an app that has been ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

The company says the transition will take months but that its app will only send Signal messages once it’s complete The company says the transition will take months but that its app will only send ...

Remember when phones were just phones? While you might use your Android device for pretty much anything but sending and receiving text messages most of the time (even to the point of preferring ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Google recently rolled out a policy change that requires apps to be manually verified by the company in order to use legacy SMS and phone call permissions, and has started removing non-compliant apps ...

The Rich Communications Services, or RCS for short, continues to get better as part of the modern Advanced Messaging standard that aims to bring mobile messaging functionality to a higher level. While ...

Searching online for free texting apps is a pain in the rear end. There are free apps that work with your existing SMS service and messenger apps that send messages but not real SMS. This is a problem ...