SMS may not be nearly as popular as it used to be, but many people still use it. It’s still quite essential in a number of ways, and there’s a reason why it survived for so long. In some regions, it’s ...

In part one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we created a utility that could send and receive messages but that wasn’t exactly in ...

SMS messages were extremely popular back in the day, but that’s no longer the case. People still send them, but most of them opted for one of the messaging platforms that require an internet ...

First, head into the Settings menu by pulling down the notification shade and tapping on the gear icon. From there, select Apps & notifications from the list of different submenus. In this menu, find ...

Our editors hand-picked these products based on our tests and reviews. Read now Google announced today two updates for Messages, the default SMS app in the Android mobile operating system. Starting ...

The simple truth is that the mobile era didn’t kill direct marketing, but it just showed which channels actually work when ...

The default Android SMS app gets the job done. It allows you to send and receive text messages, and it does so in an intuitive way. But what if you want something ...

In spite of being in existence since the inception of smartphones, SMS apps oddly seem to be going through a technological refresh of late. In addition to adopting smarter algorithms to segregate and ...

Open Signal App, and tap on your profile Next, tap on SSM and MMS Tap on the SMS Enabled option. When prompted, select Signal app as the default SMS app. If you use, enable SMS delivery reports and ...

Signal is removing the option to send and receive SMS messages in its Android app. Folks who currently use Signal as their default SMS app will receive alerts advising them to switch to a different ...

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