Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Invisible Ink is one of the standout features Apple introduced to iMessage back in 2016, part of a suite of message effects designed to make texting feel more expressive. While others like "Slam" and ...

When we were kids, “invisible ink” meant lemon juice on notebook paper, write the message, and to see it someone would have to hold it up to the light for the words to appear. Otherwise, it just ...

My finger hovers over an iMessage obscured by a haze of dancing white dots. Before I tap to dissolve the sparkling pixels and reveal the contents of the message, I know it's going to be juicy, or at ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Like cyber criminals with AI, parents might be interested to know that people have been using invisible commands for years on apps we all use. When some of us were ...