Blue dots and chat icons in Android's messaging apps aren't random. Learn what they mean and how they change the way your ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. The Android additions include editing your ...

Spotted blue text bubbles on an Android phone recently? No, it's not a trick. Instead it's a relatively new feature, and here ...

Google has finally announced that custom icon support for RCS group chats will soon be available in Google Messages. The company has also confirmed that Google Messages will soon allow users to snooze ...

A bug in the new Google Messages beta, version v20250811, is causing users to see two or even three app icons in their app drawer. The bug affects only beta users. All icons launch the same app, so ...

Learn how to use Android's scheduled texting feature. Send perfectly timed messages, manage your communication, and never forget important texts again.

If you don't want to send a text message right away, you can schedule it to go out whenever you want. We'll show you how to do it on your Android phone.