WhatsApp has a new feature that's already available on other chat apps: the ability to text yourself. That might sound like a strange feature in an app meant to help you stay connected with family and ...

Verizon customers, myself included, have been getting a new breed of spam text message: where it appears that you yourself are the spammer. This message comes from your own phone number and notes that ...

The beauty of WhatsApp, along with other popular third-party chat apps, is that it allows you to message anyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re reaching out to friends, family, or new acquaintances, or ...

The Google Messages app now lets users send texts to themselves via RCS. The app previously restricted users to SMS when texting themselves. This means you can now send long text messages, ...

Update: Verizon spokesperson Richard Young commented on the situation in an email to The Verge: “Verizon is aware that bad actors are sending spam text messages to some customers which appear to come ...