Google apparently shut down its SMS Search function last week without warning, but the news barely made a splash outside of its niche group of feature phone owners. Google apparently shut down its SMS ...

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Google is streamlining its messaging apps - or so they say. Hangouts will no longer support SMS texting, the company announced along with several other updates in a blog post on Friday. As previously ...

Had I known earlier, I would’ve thought twice before relying on the app. Here are six hidden sides of Google Messages I wish ...

A day after it emerged that Apple is taking credit for Google adding iMessage reactions on Android, the Messages app is beginning to roll out the ability to leave reactions on SMS texts, which is ...

This morning Google announced the launch of a new service that delivers Gmail messages over SMS. The service, simply called Gmail SMS, is currently available only in emerging markets where smartphone ...

In a "happy birthday" post to SMS, Google called Apple out, saying it's time to switch to RCS. RCS, or Rich Communications Services, would make texting between iPhones and Androids easier. The first ...

In May 2017, the vast majority of Android users lost the ability to use Hangouts as an SMS/MMS client. Google Fi subscribers were exempted, but that support could be coming to an end as the eventual ...