You can use private conversations on Skype to send messages or make calls that are encrypted end-to-end.

It's easy to use Google Hangouts on your iPhone to start large group chats. Here's what you need to know to do it.

Striking up a conversation—especially with a stranger—is a lot like adding kindling to a fire pit and hoping it ignites. Choose the wrong starter, and the flame will fizzle out. But when you get it ...

With iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, you can save your late-night musings for a more decent hour by setting a text message to go at a specific time in Apple Messages. Both OSes launch in the fall, though you ...

Travel is stressful enough for most of us, but not being able to text while you’re on the road is a true nightmare. On an Apple iPhone, you see the dreaded words “not delivered” with an exclamation ...