Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the ...

Notoriously, Apple doesn’t like to play nice with Android. Steve Jobs called the operating system “stolen,” and there are a number of arbitrary barriers between the two platforms — in the iPhone’s ...

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Apple and Android phones don’t exactly have a history of playing nice together, but one of the latest updates to the Android ...

QUESTION: Why don’t some Android users get my iPhone text messages? ANSWER: Text messaging was once considered an anti-social communication method by those who grew up having phone conversations as ...

Explore common causes and practical fixes for Android text issues, from network problems to app malfunctions Check your network connection and make sure Airplane Mode is off to receive texts. Restart ...

When I temporarily switched from an iPhone to an Android phone last week, I was bracing for a world of hurt. I’ve owned only Apple phones ever since buying the first-generation iPhone in 2007. And, ...

Last but not least, the app's latest update promises faster data migration using a wired connection (USB-C for newer iPhones, or USB-C to Lightning for older ones). In the other direction, you can ...