We break down how to instantly share your photos and surf social media with friends on Facebook's chat platform. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home ...

Not sure whether to use iMessage, Messenger, or WhatsApp? Each app has its own strengths — from Apple-exclusive features and social integration to global reach and privacy. Here’s how to decide which ...

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To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now. Along the way, it supplemented its original text-based ...

Facebook Messenger brings all your Facebook and Instagram chats into one place, connecting you with your friends and family worldwide. It's among the best communication apps, with a large population ...

A nationwide telecommunication outage largely affecting AT&T customers is also impacting both iPhone and Android users, but there are a number of messaging platforms that can help when cellphone ...

People in the United States are using their cell phones more often to send terse 160-character messages to other cell phones, a trend already wildly popular overseas. There are 750 million of these ...

During its iPhone Software Roadmap event on Thursday, Apple invited several developers on stage to demonstrate work-in-progress versions of some of the first third-party native iPhone applications ...

I was surprised when I first read reports that Apple was teaming up with Globalstar to provide satellite messaging services on the iPhone 14 and newer models. I had last used a Globalstar-powered ...