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.

The very first SMS message was a “Merry Christmas” text sent on Dec. 3, 1992, by Neil Papworth, a test engineer for the SEMA group.

Apple will be automatically sorting unknown texts into a new category in iOS 26. That's irritating political groups that rely ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On an iPhone, when you send a message via the Messages app and it fails, you'll likely see a red exclamation point next to your text followed by an alert that says it was "Not Delivered." ...

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.

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 ...