Authoritarian governments don’t like their citizens being able to have private conversations using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. This is the reason Russia has just banned FaceTime, but it was ...

Apple today updated its iMessage troubleshooting support document to add a scenario that can occur in iOS 26. If you don't activate iMessage or an eSIM when setting up a new iPhone with ‌iOS 26‌, it ...

Since the release of iOS 26 in September, iPhone users have experienced myriad issues. Whether it was the Calendar bug which made it difficult to search for specific keywords or the fact that some ...

If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola ...

If you see a BlueStacks error message saying Virtualization Disabled, check if your computer can handle BlueStacks by going through the system requirements mentioned ...

BlueStacks Air makes the best mobile games playable on your Mac. Now out of beta, the new platform brings hundreds of popular mobile games across varying genres directly to your Mac, vastly expanding ...

Social media giant Meta claims that it can't be considered a monopoly because iMessage outperforms Facebook Messenger on iOS. Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been dealing with an antitrust ...

Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links. With so much of our daily ...

Editor's take: BlueStacks has faced controversy in the past over questionable practices, such as force-installing a crypto wallet application and other components no one was asking for. But BlueStacks ...

For years, the iPhone’s two-tiered texting system has been a hot topic. iPhone-to-iPhone texts in the Messages app are blue, and enjoy full encryption and more robust media features, like animations.

Thousands of Apple device users reported experiencing issues while using iMessage on Thursday afternoon. Over 13,000 iMessage outages were reported as of just after 6 p.m. ET, according to outage ...

Apple's iMessage for Windows is available to set up, and this could effectively help users send, receive, and get notified on their new chats even on computers powered by the Microsoft OS. While this ...