What RCS Messaging Between iOS and Android Can and Can't Do (Yet)

Ever since iOS 18, RCS messaging has officially been supported in the iOS Messages app—specifically, via the RCS Universal Profile 2.4. This brings green bubble Android users closer to parity with ...
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Before iOS 26 Arrives, Here's What to Know About RCS Messaging on Your iPhone

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26, not iOS 19. The tech giant also announced that iOS 26 ...
BGR

6 New iMessage Features In iOS 18 That Make RCS Support An Afterthought

I thought Apple would announce RCS support coming to the Messages app during the iOS 18 segment of the WWDC 2024 keynote, and I was right. Apple said a few months ago that RCS — the carrier standard, ...
BGR

RCS Texting Is Now Available On iPhone In iOS 18 Beta 2... Sort Of

It's happening; iOS 18 will bring RCS support to the iPhone, the one feature that some Android users have been dying to get. Well, they wouldn't get anything other than the ability to enjoy somewhat ...
Benzinga.com

Green Bubbles With Read Receipts? Apple Starts Enabling RCS On Latest iOS 18 Beta, Say Users

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has reportedly started enabling Rich Communication Services or RCS on its latest iOS 18 beta, according to user reports on social media. What Happened: On Tuesday, Bloomberg ...
Digital Trends

I finally have RCS on my iPhone, and it’s one of my favorite iOS 18 features

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 ...
The Verge

RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare

Texting an Android user from an iPhone still isn’t as good as the blue-bubble life. But at least it’s not awful anymore. Texting an Android user from an iPhone still isn’t as good as the blue-bubble ...
Android Police

New iOS 18 beta finally flips the switch for RCS on iPhones

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...
Computerworld

RCS now works on iPhones running the iOS 18 beta

Apple's Messages app now supports RCS for richer media and more reliable group messaging compared to SMS and MMS. Since the release of Apple’s iOS 18 developer beta 2, Rich Communication Suite (RCS) ...
MacRumors

iOS 18 RCS Support Rolling Out to Beta Users

With the second beta of iOS 18 that came out yesterday, Apple added an RCS toggle, but RCS messaging was not working at that time. ‌RCS‌ support appears to now be rolling out, based on reports from ...
CNET

Before iOS 26, Here's What You Should Know About RCS Messaging on Your iPhone

Here's how to check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol, how to enable it and when Apple could bring end-to-end encryption to the protocol on your iPhone. Zach began writing for CNET in ...