If you deleted all text messages on your iPhone more than 30 days ago or your device isn’t compatible with iOS 16, iCloud backup is the solution for these cases.

SMS had many limitations starting with the need to be connected to a cellular network to work and it could only do so with text. It also provided no encryption, so your messages were sent in plain ...

SMS had many limitations, starting with the need to be connected to a cellular network to work. It also provided no encryption, so your messages were sent in plain text.

Instead, it will be adopted separately from the current SMS/MMS technology, in which messages appear in a “green bubble” when sent between iPhone and Android users.

When you receive an iMessage on your iPhone, it immediately appears on your Mac and iPad. But that’s not the case when someone sends you an SMS or MMS message from an Android phone; those text ...

That’s changing in iOS 26. As spotted by MacRumors, when you tap within a message, you’ll get a cursor that will highlight ...

“SMS is a great vector to attack the iPhone,” he said. Most often used to send brief text messages between cell phones, SMS can also send binary code to an iPhone, which then processes the ...

But a different feature entirely was added in a recent iOS update—‘Critical Messages’—that enables apps to send your iPhone highly important messages via SMS. Here’s how it works.