Enabling RCS chats on Android only takes a few taps. Make sure you have an active SIM card inserted in your phone, and, in ...

A million two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS passed through an obscure third-party company. Here's how it happened ...

The RCS (Rich Communication Services) standard intended as a replacement for the older SMS (Short Message Service) is now ...

Google will soon phase out SMS-based two-factor authentication in favor of QR codes. The company will use various techniques, including attempting to verify the user’s number directly with their ...

An APK teardown of the Google app version 16.25.44 shows that Google is adding RCS support for Gemini. Google Gemini on ...

Instead of relying on SMS-based authentication, I've recommended using a dedicated authenticator app, or the password-less Passkeys system that Google itself is pushing quite a bit. When using an ...

Did you know that Google Messages actually supports text formatting? Unfortunately, though, this feature isn't available to users.

Google now hopes to move beyond SMS, which has become so frequently abused that it negates any supposed security benefit. Instead of using SMS, the company will reportedly switch to using QR codes.

Google has been busy baking Gemini into all of its products (such as Android Auto) and adding support for all kinds of ...

Google is not the only company to move away from SMS for 2FA. Last year, Evernote removed SMS from its service , and the secure messaging app Signal removed it in 2022 . X, Apple and Microsoft ...

In an effort to curb global SMS scams, Google is planning to shift away from SMS two-factor authentication. Instead, Google will prompt users to scan a QR code to authenticate their phone numbers ...