If you’re an AT&T customer, you’ve long been able to send and receive texts through email (even if you didn’t realize it.) The company now says it’s going to sunset this feature on June 17, 2025. That’s not necessarily bad news, however; as many users point out, text-to-email services can result in a surprising amount of spam messages making it through email filters.
The closure announcement came with little fanfare. Many people weren’t even aware AT&T was discontinuing the feature until Reddit user u/ben305 shared a post on the r/ATT subreddit. All AT&T’s official website says is, “On June 17, 2025, our email-to-text and text-to-email service is going away. This means you won’t be able to use email to send or receive texts. Also, others who have AT&T WirelessSM won’t be able to use email to send you a text or use text to send you an email.”
The service is also going away from any Cricket subscribers.
Though some Reddit users lamented the loss of the service, most took it in stride. User u/garylapointe said, “It doesn’t seem like it’s been working very well the past couple of years, so that’s probably a good thing.” On the other hand, user u/nothing_2_talk_about said, “I use this feature all the time! I have my email set to forward to text to alert me of safety alerts from the filtering software we use to monitor my students.”
Most other major carriers provide a similar service. Verizon still offers something along the same lines, although the company has since retired its email service. T-Mobile also allows customers to send texts to devices from email addresses by using the format “[email protected],” where “phonenumber” is replaced with the ten-digit number.
While once useful, most people have drifted away from text-to-email and vice-versa in recent years. Other services like Pushover have essentially replaced this feature, and they do so without the spam risk that has long become synonym with email-to-text.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.
Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.
I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.
For years, Samsung’s Galaxy A phones have been some of the easiest recommendations for anyone who wants to go the Android route without paying flagship prices. But that part of the lineup could soon become harder to find at a good price.
According to South Korea’s Electronic Times, Samsung is cutting Galaxy A production by about 20% in the fourth quarter compared to its original plans. Component orders have reportedly dropped by a similar amount, which could mean roughly 10 million fewer phones over the year. Samsung is also said to be considering another production cut of more than 10% next year.