How to get email alerts for Facebook messages and invites
If you’re like me, you don’t use Facebook as often as you once did—in fact, it’s probably been months (or years!) since you last logged in. Facebook isn’t what it used to be, so I…
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TIL how to quickly clear a phantom Messages badge on my Mac
I sit in front of a Mac all day (like you probably do), so I rely on notifications a lot, especially to communicate with co-workers, friends, and family. The problem I’ve been having, however, is…
Apple will soon encrypt iPhone-to-Android messages just like iMessage
When Apple released Messages with RCS support in iOS 18 last year, it was missing a key security feature: end-to-end encryption. At the time, Apple said it would wait until encryption was part of the…
How to fix Messages syncing on a Mac
Messages is designed to sync across all your devices logged into to the same iCloud account. iMessages sync by default; SMS/MMS and RCS messages sync if you’ve enabled access to them from your iPhone. (Go…
Believe it or not, ChatGPT gets over 1 billion messages every single day
There has been a lot of talk about AI chatbots over the past few years, but how much are they actually used? OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman shared in a tweet (spotted by MSPoweruser) some figures…
Authorities catch ‘SMS blaster’ gang that drove around Bangkok sending thousands of phishing messages
Thai authorities announced last week the arrests of two organized fraud gangs, one of which was accused of driving through the streets of Bangkok while blasting hundreds of thousands of malicious SMS text messages to…
How to get ready for Messages by satellite and go off the grid
Expanding its use of low-flying satellites for models of iPhone starting with the iPhone 14, Apple added Messages to the set of available features with the release of iOS 18. But there are a lot…
If iMessage is so great, why is the Messages experience so terrible?
Apple’s Messages app may have lost the global messaging wars, but in many countries–including the U.S.–it’s still an incredibly popular way of communicating. That’s why Apple keeps upgrading it. This fall’s Messages updates are some…
How to use new Messages text effects and formatting in macOS Sequoia and iOS 18
Apple added a new kind of effect in Messages in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 18 that let you apply basic styling to selections, like bold or underline, and animate text with effects. These…
PSA: Link-sharing bug in iOS 18 Messages can cause iPhone crashes, data loss
iPhone owners who have installed Apple’s new iOS 18 software update should be warned: There’s a Messages bug that can cause crashes and may even result in the loss of valuable data. One of 9to5Mac’s…