Open a browser and go to Google Messages. Sign in with your Google account details. When you enter your Google login information, it shows a random emoji. Open the Messages app on your smartphone.

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

Android users who favor Android Messages as their default messaging application will be thrilled to hear that Google has begun the rollout of desktop browser support. That means that text messages can ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

In September, Google was spotted working on a Google Account-based device pairing system for Google Messages. It makes pairing your phone with the web version of the messaging app easier and more ...

About a month ago, Instagram announced that it would be bringing its web app to the Microsoft Store, superseding the current offering for Windows 10. While the cross-platform nature of a web app makes ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Google has continued to improve the Android Messages desktop client, ...

Instagram’s Direct Messages are migrating to desktop. On Tuesday, January 14, Instagram confirmed that the longstanding mobile messaging option is now being tested on desktop for a small number of ...