A lot of people have been noticing a small blue dot next to their text messages or contacts on their Android devices, and it's not some quirky design element. There's a reason why some of the contacts ...

Social media has trained us to indicate approval with emojis. A like might be as good as a response in some circumstances on messaging apps like WhatsApp, but can you do the same with simple text ...

A group of app developers are working on ways to bridge the blue/green divide. NEW YORK -- If you send a text from an iPhone to another iPhone, most of the time that text is blue. If you send a text ...

Liking or reacting to a message is an easy way to acknowledge a text. Thankfully, it is also very straightforward to like text messages on your favorite budget Android phone. It is one of the many ...

Android users who use the Google Messages app may have noticed a check mark or two below sent messages, but what do these icons represent? The Google Messages app isn't just an SMS and MMS application ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

There are many reasons for wanting to print out a text message. Maybe someone sent you some exciting news via SMS, and you'd like to print it out and pin it on your bulletin board. Or maybe someone ...

If you're using one of the most common apps to manage text chats on an Android phone, you'll see a small blue dot appear next to certain conversations. In other cases, a different symbol, such as a ...