If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning.

Apple is making it easier to organize plans in iMessage with a new polling feature in iOS 26, giving group chat participants ...

When you send messages to another iOS device from your iPhone, the device sends those messages in iMessage format using Apple's servers rather than the cellular network. Any problem with Apple's ...

Whereas traditional texts, like SMS messages, rely on a cellular signal to send and receive messages, iMessage sends texts through Wi-Fi or data.