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 ...

Google is now rolling out a feature called Audio Emoji in its first-party Phone app. You might relate emojis with text messages as it makes texting fun. Emojis are a great way to express your feelings ...

There are plenty of reasons to look forward to iOS 26 — the debut of Apple's new Liquid Glass design language, custom backgrounds for text conversations, and CarPlay upgrades — but we are here to give ...

Apple's iOS 18.4 update adds a new selection of emoji, enhancing expressive options for iPhone users with images that include a weary-looking face, a shovel and the flag of Sark. The software update, ...

The Google Phone app is picking up a new trick, with the app now rolling out “Audio Emoji” to some users. “Audio Emoji” in the Google Phone app are essentially stock sound effects attached to one of ...

Podcast episodes in the Apple Podcast app will have transcripts, with text highlighting in sync with the audio, in English, Spanish French and German. The text also will be searchable and can be used ...

The experience of using iPhone apps on the iPad isn’t exactly great, but things got better with Stage Manager, since apps not optimized for iPhone can run in floating windows on the screen. But with ...

You can say goodbye to the dreaded "🥲 to 'why the hell aren’t emoji reacts working?’” from iOS to Android with RCS. Reading time 2 minutes One of the biggest pain points of texting between iOS and ...

Whether it's a cheeky wink or a grinning cowboy, it might seem like there is already an emoji for every possible situation.

Not everyone is a fan of the generic iOS message reactions, called Tapbacks. The six original Tapbacks were a heart, thumbs ...