Apple's iOS 17 is now available to download, and it brings major quality-of-life improvements to your iPhone. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on smartphones, ...

There are many ways to liven up a text conversation. Most messaging platforms these days offer the use of emojis. GIFs, and stickers from third-party apps as a way for senders to zhuzh up responses or ...

Messages started life as an innovative app that unified SMS with Apple’s own free iMessage service when it was introduced five years ago. As time passed, Messages fell behind many of its competitors ...

Messaging app Viber added a feature that lets brands and users create customized stickers to decorate their messages. "Create a Sticker" provides software tools to design personalized stickers that ...

The iOS 16 public beta is here, which means you can get a taste of Apple’s upcoming mobile software before its stable release. As we saw at WWDC in June, the iPhone is slated to get a whole new lock ...