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I recently purchased a Murena Fairphone 6. There were sacrifices I expected to be made in switching to a privacy-centric, de-Googled version of Android–but I didn’t…

Last week Apple fixed an issue that let the FBI forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app had…

Earlier this year, Google Messages seemed to have settled on a new design for read receipts. The RCS app rolled that back, but is now pursuing…

Like other Google apps, Messages for Android A/B tests many features. It can take the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to actually launch new functionality…

If you’ve been living under a rock, the Samsung Messages app is going away. Samsung has officially confirmed that it will shut down the app in…

If you haven’t heard yet, Samsung has officially confirmed that it’s shutting down its Samsung Messages app later this year. The company has already stopped pre-installing…

We start this week with Joseph’s story on the inherent friction between secure chat apps like Signal and the phone they’re running on. Incoming message content…

An industry of tech companies is now selling AI-powered chatbot services to Airbnb hosts which reply to guests on their behalf. 404 Media started looking into…

What you need to knowGoogle Messages now adds a trash folder, letting you recover deleted chats instead of removing them instantly.Deleted conversations stay in the trash…

Following the announcement last month, Google Messages has widely rolled out its new Trash folder to save you from accidental deletions. Previously, deleting a conversation immediately…