The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or ...

Blue and green bubbles aside, texting your Android friends has never been safer. Discover the "lock" icon that just changed ...

One of the many benefits of using iMessage is that you know your conversations are always end-to-end encrypted. That level of security has never previously extended to green bubble conversations. But ...

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little thing, ...

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.

A new startup called Germ is bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to the Bluesky social network, allowing its users to have a more secure option for chats than Bluesky’s existing DMs. After over ...

While E2EE protects message content, modern threat actors are no longer attempting to defeat it. Instead, they are exploiting ...

Apple and Google have finally end-to-end encrypted RCS messages between their platforms — 18 months after the FBI warned those texts are not secure. But there’s a worrying angle to the coverage that ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today ...

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands.