AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

In iOS 26, Apple has added new call filtering options to FaceTime. You can still silence unknown callers, but you can now have missed calls and voicemails from unsaved numbers sorted into an Unknown ...

Tap and hold the conversation you want to pin, then select the "Pin" option that appears at the top. The Google Messages app currently allows you to pin up to 20 conversations. In the future, when you ...

You can delete Instagram messages in two different ways – by deleting an entire conversation or by "unsending" a message.

Here's how to delete individual messages and conversations on your iPhone's Messages app, with steps to set up an auto-delete ...

iOS 26 introduces several new mechanics to the iPhone, including an option to change the background on individual conversations in the Messages app. The only downside to this, though, is that if one ...

When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

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Android's Key Verifier tool is live in Google Messages, helping you make sure your contacts are who you think they are.

Bring more life and personalization to your group chats, by adding backgrounds to your conversations in Messages in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. Here's how to change yours for the better. Messages is an ...

Go to Google Messages and view your list of conversations. Tap and hold the conversation you'd like to come back to. Tap the ...