People have love/hate relationships with messaging Read Receipts. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re those little alerts below messages that indicate that they have been seen or read by the other party. When Read Receipt is turned on, people will be notified when you read the messages they’ve sent you. Vice versa, if it’s turned […]
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How to recover deleted text messages from an Android smartphone
If you’ve accidentally deleted some or all of your text messages by mistake, fret not! You can get them back with a 99% chance of success, but there’s one ingredient that is most important: time! If you’ve deleted your SMS inbox you have to act quick, because while the messages are recoverable until the portion […]
How to send SMS or MMS text messages from your PC or tablet using your Android phone number
Our little Android devices can do almost as much as some PCs, but it’s easy to forget that your smartphone is still a phone at heart. And with all the instant messaging services available for you to communicate, sometimes text messaging gets put in the backseat to the more robust features of something like Google […]
How to Back up Text messages on your Android Phone
It helps a lot if you use an Android phone, where your only hard part is deciding which app you want to use for the job. And on that operating system, one of the most popular choices is the free SMS Backup+. Once you connect the app to your Gmail account, it automatically backs up […]