iMessage texts also got a fresh coat of paint: outgoing texts now appeared blue. Texting an Android phone from your iPhone defaults back to the older SMS technology, which means no read receipts ...

iMessage is such a good product that Google has been running RCS ads based on it for years. It’s so good that some of the people who want to use it the most are diehard Android users who wouldn ...

The key selling point was iMessage on Android, and that, too, with blue bubbles. No more green bubble shaming. Nothing CEO Carl Pei appeared in an introductory video with a brave "Sorry Tim ...

Beeper has figured out how iMessage works so it can send messages directly from an Android phone to Apple’s servers. Beeper has figured out how iMessage works so it can send messages directly ...

Step 16: Once this is done, you will receive new iMessages on your Android device. With a service like Beeper, you may have concerns about safety and privacy. Apple’s iMessage service uses end ...

It's a question we've been asking for ages: Why isn't iMessage on Android? Of course, we know the answer. Clearly, Apple enjoys using the social pressure of blue bubbles to convince more people ...

iMessage will handle Android users in group chats a bit differently in iOS 17. Unfortunately, the experience will get better for iPhone users, not Android users. It’s possible Apple has more ...

There's good news and bad news for iPhone owners with Android friends. First the bad: Apple will probably never bring iMessage to Android. But on the bright side, it doesn't need to. It's ...

After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back ...

Beeper Mini has said it’s able to bring the encrypted messaging software to Android by by reverse-engineering the iMessage protocol. Beeper Mini launched earlier this month, promising to bring ...

That’s going to change in time, but for now, it’s no wonder that some people have been cheering on recent efforts to make Apple’s popular iMessage service available to Android users ...

(Of course, that includes iMessage.) So, why the delay? The reason these features haven’t been available for iPhone users texting friends with Android phones — and vice versa — is that they ...