Apple Shutters Third-Celebration Apps that Enabled iMessage on Android

Apple Inc. on Saturday mentioned it shut down third-party functions that enabled Android gadgets to make use of the iMessage service to speak with iPhone customers.

The iPhone maker mentioned in a press release it “took steps to guard our customers by blocking strategies that exploit faux credentials with a purpose to acquire entry to iMessage.” It added that “these strategies posed important dangers to consumer safety and privateness, together with the potential for metadata publicity and enabling undesirable messages, spam, and phishing assaults.”