There's good news and bad news for iPhone owners with Android friends. First the bad: Apple will probably never bring iMessage to Android. But on the bright side, it doesn't need to. It's impossible ...

After Apple shut down the mechanism that Android app Beeper Mini was using to bring iMessage to Android users, Beeper Mini's developers today said that they have found a way to bring the app back, ...

Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android without the need to sign in with an Apple ID or run iMessage on a server. All you need is your phone number and a Google sign-in to get started. After a 7-day ...

A few weeks ago, an app called Nothing Chats arrived on the scene with a whole lot of buzz around it. The key selling point was iMessage on Android, and that, too, with blue bubbles. No more green ...

The renowned but controversial iMessage for Android experience by Sunbird is now making its comeback with a new expansion. More users are eligible to access this experience despite not owning an ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

RCS Messages Between iPhone and Android Get End-to-End Encryption With iOS 26.5 ...

Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky received an unexpected message in early 2023: a developer claimed to have cracked Apple's iMessage code, enabling cross-platform messaging with Android devices. Skeptical at ...

Over the past several weeks, iMessage for Android has been a big topic of discussion and, for many, it comes back to why Android users seem to want iMessage so much. Personally, I don’t. iMessage for ...

You should get an iPhone if you want an iMessage chatting experience and are on Android. That's what I and many others have told you, especially since the Beeper Mini saga started. That's the only way ...

iMessage for Android was once just a pipedream but has since become a reality thanks to a bunch of different workarounds. However, Apple has now made it abundantly clear that it does not want iMessage ...

An Apple executive pushed the company to make iMessage available for Android back in 2013. The executive cited the threat of Google buying WhatsApp as a reason to steam ahead. A fellow Apple executive ...