Notifications are an essential part of the smartphone experience, particularly for text messages and emails. You might also want to have notifications turned on for social media apps like Instagram, ...

Did you know that you can have a custom notification sound for message notifications of certain contacts on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4? By setting custom notifications you will immediately know who ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification ...

WhatsApp on Android Auto offers the convenient option to play all texts aloud, including new notifications and those received ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. The Android additions include editing your ...

Social media has trained us to indicate approval with emojis. A like might be as good as a response in some circumstances on messaging apps like WhatsApp, but can you do the same with simple text ...

Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ...

Names of unknown people who contact you could start showing in Google Messages notifications. For this feature to work, those people will need to have profile discovery enabled and have the number ...

How can I make my smartwatch receive text messages? All Android smartwatches, including the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and the Google Pixel Watch 2, can receive and send text messages. You must activate ...

Have you experienced not being able to send a message to a particular person but instead gets an error message such as “message blocking active”? Most of the time ...