The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS
Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo If you’re running the iOS 18 developer beta, you may have noticed your Android friends aren’t the same green bubbles as they used to be.…
Google Messages Will Finally Let You Text 911
Image: Google It’s not Android’s equivalent to the iPhone’s emergency SOS via satellite, but it’ll do for now. Google announced that later this year, Google Messages will let you text…
Save Your Google Maps Timeline to Your Phone Before Its Too Late
If you’re mainly plotting routes through Google Maps on your web browser, Google is telling you it’s past time to start using the app and only the app. The company…
Android Will Finally Let You Edit Sent RCS Messages
Editable messages are coming soon to RCS. Image: Google Perfectionists unite (Virgos out there, raise your hands). Android will let you edit RCS messages you send through Google Messages. The…
How To Find All the People You’ve Ever Blocked
Sadly, people aren’t always as nice as they could be, and that’s where you need to turn to the various blocking and reporting features on the digital platforms you frequent.…
‘This Will Ruin My Life and Career’: Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing With Sextortionists
Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably…
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Down After Suffering Major Outage
File photo of a woman checking her phone during an Instagram outage in 2021.Photo: Ed Jones (Getty Images) Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with…
Incognito Mode Not Helping, What Wi-Fi Really Means, Sam Altman Is That Likes, and More Tech News
Photo: Ramsey Cardy (Getty Images) Meta has lots of data through Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, but that’s not enough for them. Court filings unsealed last week allege Meta created an…
RCS Coming to iPhone This Fall, Leaked Google Promo Image Claims
Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Rich communication services (RCS) is already a big deal on Android phones with more than a billion users. Those numbers might be going up by…
The Greatest App of All Time Day 25: WhatsApp vs. Google Maps
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we’re officially down to our Elite Eight! Calculator took Uber to school in…