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.

Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between ...

iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly ...

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

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

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 ...

Major security upgrade: Apple and Google are introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS chats between iOS and Android, starting with iOS 26.5 and the latest Google Messages. Carrier-based rollout: The ...

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 ...

As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators ...

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The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...