Google Messages could soon allow users to set up custom icons for RCS group chats. We’ve manually enabled the feature in the latest Messages beta release to give you an early look. Google is getting ...

Google Messages could soon solve a common frustration for group chat users, finally enabling them to set custom group chat icons. Currently, Google does not allow users to change the RCS group chat ...

Since Google's push to RCS standards in 2019, Android's Messages app by Google offers great in-house features. After you've opened Google Messages and enabled RCS chats, you'll find typing indicators, ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

As of last week, Google Messages indicated that Android-iPhone RCS conversations don’t support end-to-end encryption with a lock icon that features a slash. This is because Google Messages uses its ...

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Apple may soon push an update to iMessage that allows for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) through RCS messages with Android.

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Messages has removed the icon indicating the lack of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in RCS chats with Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone users. What ...