You may notice a new warning in your iPhone’s text messages, and it’s not a scam about unpaid tolls. On Monday, Apple released its latest iOS update, 26.5, for eligible iPhones and iPads. In it are ...

For years, texting between an iPhone and an Android phone meant sending your messages in a state that carriers, and anyone intercepting network traffic, could theoretically read. iMessage has always ...

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

The Signal encrypted messaging application is seen on a mobile device in this illustration photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on 26 March, 2025. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto) I don’t know very much ...

Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The fallout from the Signal App group chat on national security is putting more eyes on the app and encrypted messaging apps In a very digital age, and more of people’s ...

Apple's latest update works to secure texting between iPhones and Androids. Here are the 23 carriers supporting the rollout.

Apple is now testing end-to-end encryption for RCS between iPhones and Android devices in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. This builds on last week’s rollout for iPhones only. The feature is still in beta and won’t ...

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

Person holding an iPhone displaying the Apple logo on its startup screen. Apple is preparing encrypted RCS support for iPhone, a change that could make messaging with Android users more secure and ...

Updated on May 12 as Apple’s new messaging update goes live. It’s finally here. Almost 18-months after the FBI warned Americans to stop texting between iPhone and Android, Apple has fixed the problem.