Jake Peterson

Back in May, we learned Google was planning some interesting security features for devices running Android 10 and newer. These options were specifically designed for stopping thieves from accessing your smartphone’s data should it be stolen, which is quite useful—even if they might not necessarily prevent that theft in the first place. Six months later,…

Last year, Apple announced it would finally bring RCS support to the iPhone with iOS 18. This was big news: For the first time, texting between iPhones and Androids wouldn’t absolutely suck. While RCS did make its way to iPhone’s with Apple’s big update, unfortunately, the full promise of RCS isn’t quite here yet. What…

iOS 18 adds a lot of new features to the iPhone’s Messages app. You can now add text effects to iMessages, schedule messages to send later, and text Android friends with RCS instead of SMS. But despite months of beta testing, iOS 18 also comes with a baked-in Messages bug—one that might force you to…