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RCS Encryption Between Android and iPhones is Hopefully Next

Kellen September 18, 2024 11

The big news of the week for Android users who want to send messages to their friends with iPhones involves the big update to iOS 18 that was just released by Apple. With this update, iPhone owners can send RCS messages over to Android users, meaning big...

iOS 18 Now Live, So That Means RCS

Tim September 16, 2024 43

iOS 18 is now available for all supported Apple devices, which is great news for Android users. If you haven't been following, iOS 18 supports RCS (rich communication services), which is what Android users have been using for quite a while on supported apps (...

Google Gets Excited About RCS Coming to the iPhone

Kellen July 31, 2024 35

Apple really has committed to bringing RCS support to its Messages app when iOS 18 releases later this year. For beta testers of iOS, you can already send RCS messages to your Android friends. It's a big deal, for the most part, because it should improve the...

To Speed Up RCS Adoption, Samsung Makes Google Messages New Default

Tim July 23, 2024 21

This year, Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 buyers will notice that Samsung's usually preloaded Messages app is no longer present, and instead, users will simply have the default of Google Messages. Samsung has long loved having its own branded solutions...

Google Messages Might Soon Stop Compressing Your Images so Much

Tim July 18, 2024 5

Code changes spotted inside of Google Messages point to increased photo quality sharing abilities, and given how much guff Google was giving Apple about supporting RCS, we think it's about time this change was taking effect. Right now, Apple supports iOS 18...

RCS Gets Standardized Message Edits, Reactions, More

Kellen July 9, 2024 19

The Universal Profile 2.7 was released at the end of last month and discovered by the folks at reddit who follow all the happenings with RCS (Rich Communication Service). This update to 2.7 brings a bunch of standardizations to RCS messaging, which is...

Good Day: RCS Enabled, Now Working on iOS 18

Tim June 26, 2024 22

Android owners with iPhone friends who are running the iOS 18 beta, you'll want to hear this news: RCS has been enabled and appears to be working between iOS and Android devices. We've been doing a bit of testing with it this morning, and while there still...

Apple Confirms RCS for iOS 18

Kellen June 10, 2024 26

At the end of 2023, Apple made a commitment to support RCS in the iPhone Messages app at some point in 2024. The news was huge, but we didn't know at the time if a big update to iOS would be required or if they could push support on the backend. Then in March,...