Android 16 QPR2 will roll out over the air to Pixel devices soon. Non-Pixel users can access 64-bit system images through ...

Android 16 QPR2 brings AI-powered notification summaries, deeper dark theme options, and built-in parental controls, starting ...

Our editors hand-picked these products based on our tests and reviews. Read now Google announced today two updates for Messages, the default SMS app in the Android mobile operating system. Starting ...

Remember when phones were just phones? While you might use your Android device for pretty much anything but sending and receiving text messages most of the time (even to the point of preferring ...

Microsoft is continuing its strategy of rolling out its own Android apps which are meant to provide basic, core functions. The latest such Microsoft app is called SMS Organizer and is designed to ...

Google recently rolled out a policy change that requires apps to be manually verified by the company in order to use legacy SMS and phone call permissions, and has started removing non-compliant apps ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Tired of switching back and forth between Facebook Messenger and SMS on your Android? On Tuesday, Facebook announced that the Messenger app now supports SMS messaging. That means Android users can set ...

The Rich Communications Services, or RCS for short, continues to get better as part of the modern Advanced Messaging standard that aims to bring mobile messaging functionality to a higher level. While ...