iOS 26 introduced a quirk that breaks iMessage for some users during iPhone setup. If you set up an eSIM after the initial setup process instead of during it, iMessage won't activate automatically, ...

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a ...

Apple’s iMessage may come preloaded on every iPhone it sells, but this week’s news has confirmed that unless you live in the US, that’s now fairly irrelevant. This isn’t news—that iMessage has become ...

Android users’ hopes that Apple’s iMessage would be forced to open up in the European Union have been dashed. Bloomberg reports that iMessage won’t qualify for the EU’s new “Digital Markets Act,” ...

The idea of iMessage for Android sounds like a pipe dream, and for the most part, it is. Apps like AirMessage and Bleeper do make it possible to get iMessage on your Android phone today, but they ...

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of ...

The messaging experience is one of the main points of contention in the iOS/Android conflicts, which are as old as their parent companies. iPhone-to-Android texting is not very seamless, especially ...

Apple’s iMessage is making headlines again, as the blue/green bubble debate takes another twist. But these headlines come with a serious new warning for the billion ...

A former Apple Siri and Apple Intelligence engineer is bringing an AI agent into iMessage itself.⁠ Nikhil Gupta, who worked ...

I’ve been an avid fan of Apple’s iMessage platform since it first came along in 2011, and there’s no doubt that Apple was way ahead of the curve in developing an integrated rich messaging system. But ...

DoorDash is pushing food delivery deeper into everyday messaging with a new AI agent that takes orders inside Apple’s ...