Easily gather feedback and opinions from friends and family using the new polls feature in iMessage, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Apple is binging Tapbacks to Messages on CarPlay, so now you can react to chats with emoji while driving because what could possibly go wrong?

Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch.

Apple's iOS 26 software could enhance the iPhone's built-in Messages app with new capabilities, including polls and automatic translation.

If you want to share a link with highlighted text in Messages, there’s an easy but hidden way to do it in Safari on your iPhone.

(via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

The ShootingStar jailbreak tweak lets you send any message via iMessage with the same Shooting Star effect you get from sending "Eid Mubarak."

Send an RCS text from your iPhone to an Android phone after ensuring RCS messaging is supported by your carrier and enabled on your iPhone.

Find out what your options are if you’re about to type a message reply but don’t want the other side to see the typing bubble or indicator.

Support for end-to-end encryption for texts between iPhone and Android is coming soon via the Rich Communication Services (RCS) 3.0 protocol.

Apple will add end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for RCS texting between iPhone and Android later this year.

(via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

With the second developer beta seed of iOS 18.4, some iPhone users are noticing support for RCS messaging that didn't have it prior.