Your phone already has powerful spam protection tools—you just need to activate them. We show you how on iPhone and Android.

Though we have come a long way when it comes to communicating with friends and family over the internet thanks to social media apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, sometimes plain old texting through the ...

Pretty much all of us are used to robocalls, info-marketers, and spam in our emailsand now scammers are targeting another form of communication: text messages. According to NPR, more than 47 billion ...

Text messages that come to your phone as spam messages are a nuisance at best and a risk to your personal security at worst. But somewhere in between lies a unique type of spam text message that ...

Android already offers several on-device protection features. The OS offers on-device fraud detection to spot scams within ...

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 ...

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 ...