Microsoft yesterday announced a major update to the Skype apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac that has brought out message drafts, split screen, bookmarks, a new way to share media, as well as other messaging improvements to your mobile and desktop devices.
For letting your recipient know the topic or making text stand out with bold formatting, you can use a text message subject line in the Messages app.
Learn how to get handy voice announcements from Siri through your AirPods or Powerbeats Pro for texts sent to you via Messages or any third-party messaging app.
How about sharing posts from your WhatsApp status to your Instagram or Facebook story, or sending them to other apps?
AnyTrans for Mac and Windows has been updated with many improvements. You can now back up your iOS devices wirelessly on a schedule as well as move WhatsApp/Viber chats between devices, back your social media archives to a computer and more.
This is a nicely done app aimed at all fans of Steam games.
Instagram is doing a little simplifying and housekeeping: the Facebook-owned company will be removing Direct, its standalone messaging app that was originally unveiled in 2017, within the next month.
The Facebook-owned messaging service has acknowledged in an updated support document that its iOS app will stop working on aging iPhones and iPads powered by iOS 7.
Aside from a faster, lighter app, Messenger is getting two new major features—a new way to watch videos together with other people and better ways to connect with close friends.
Messenger Desktop will roll out globally on macOS and Windows later this year, bringing the same features as the mobile app on your iPhone, including group video calling.
You can make your messages a lot more fun. These are the best iPhone emoji keyboard apps to spruce up your texts and emails.
BlackBerry announced on Thursday that it will be closing its once-popular messaging platform next month. The company says the consumer-side of the BBM service will officially shut down on May 31st, but it plans to keep the enterprise version online for the foreseeable future, and it will be opening that up to all users.
