Last year, Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the ...

If you're an iPhone owner, you might be familiar with this experience. You're having a back-and-forth conversation with your friend over iMessage, when suddenly there's a lull and your blue bubbles ...

The iOS 18 by Apple also comes with the RCS messaging feature, which is set to transform the communication between iPhones and Android smartphones with improved messaging power. It is an enhanced ...

Apple brought RCS support to the iPhone's Messages app with the iOS 18 update last September, effectively putting an end to the bubble wars. The green bubbles did not disappear from the iPhone all of ...

Apple released the fifth public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 25. The update brought a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. But when Apple released ...

Apple’s Messages app has certainly come a long way. When the first iPhone launched in 2007, it could only send SMS — there weren’t even picture messages. Then it got MMS protocol support in iPhone OS ...

This is thanks to the latest RCS standard that includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. It basically enables interoperable encryption between different platform providers.

Editor's Note: Verizon is warning an RCS texting change is in store for some users in 2025. Our latest story can be found here. Our original story continues below. If you've seen the letters RCS while ...

Over a billion RCS messages are sent on a daily basis in the United States, Google said today. ‌RCS‌, or Rich Communication Services, is a communication protocol that replaced the prior SMS and MMS ...

New evidence found in iOS 26.3 beta 2 suggests that end-to-end encryption for RCS messages is nearing reality, nearly a year after Apple first announced its support for the feature. For iPhone users ...

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