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In 2024, Apple made a gesture of goodwill to European regulators and opened iOS 18 to RCS, the evolution of the old SMS.

Tap Phone . Toggle off Tap Recents to Call. If you change your mind later, you can come back and toggle the setting back on.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched an 'Encrypt It Already' campaign demanding Apple enable end-to-end encryption for RCS messages with Android.

They tell you that replying “STOP” will get the texts to cease. But in many cases, they’re lying. And it can often make ...

When Apple stops supporting older iPhones and iPads with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, it usually isn’t the end of the line—Apple keeps releasing new security-only patches for those devices for ...

Safety Check on your iPhone lets you instantly stop all location sharing and revoke app access with Emergency Reset.

Spam and scam calls have turned the simple act of answering your phone into a risk calculation, but on the iPhone a ...

If you want to limit your screen time or stop doomscrolling, both Apple and Google have digital well-being features to help you disconnect. Newer generations of software, iOS 26 and Android 16, have ...