iOS 18 added support for RCS cross-platform messaging between iPhone and Android. Android users can now edit RCS messages sent to iPhones using Google Messages, but iPhone users can't do the same yet.

Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) yesterday published new specifications for the Rich ...

Apple announced in March that it would support RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in a future software update. That “future update” is expected to be iOS 26–either in September or soon after. RCS 3.0 will ...

What this means in practice is that your RCS messages will finally get the same kind of protection iMessage has had for years. With end-to-end encryption, every message — whether it’s text, an image, ...

The FBI's guidelines recommended that users not send texts from iPhone to Android or vice versa because they were not securely encrypted. However, messages sent from iPhone to iPhone or Android to ...