Enabling RCS chats on Android only takes a few taps. Make sure you have an active SIM card inserted in your phone, and, in ...

An APK teardown of the Google app version 16.25.44 shows that Google is adding RCS support for Gemini. Google Gemini on ...

Instead of relying on SMS-based authentication, I've recommended using a dedicated authenticator app, or the password-less Passkeys system that Google itself is pushing quite a bit. When using an ...

A couple of years ago, we covered a report by the NY Times on the ongoing issues with review scams and blackmail. Well, the ...

Google now hopes to move beyond SMS, which has become so frequently abused that it negates any supposed security benefit. Instead of using SMS, the company will reportedly switch to using QR codes.

Google is not the only company to move away from SMS for 2FA. Last year, Evernote removed SMS from its service , and the secure messaging app Signal removed it in 2022 . X, Apple and Microsoft ...

Google will soon phase out SMS-based two-factor authentication in favor of QR codes. The company will use various techniques, including attempting to verify the user’s number directly with their ...

Google is officially moving away from using SMS messages in its Gmail account two-factor authenticator. Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told Forbes, “we want to move away from sending SMS ...

Google is about to overhaul the login procedure for nearly 2 billion Gmail users as part of a major security update to its email service.. The current method of sending an SMS text message to ...

In an effort to curb global SMS scams, Google is planning to shift away from SMS two-factor authentication. Instead, Google will prompt users to scan a QR code to authenticate their phone numbers ...

In the coming months, Google will replace Gmail’s SMS code authentication with QR codes to help reduce fraud and spam while increasing security for users.