Apple said Monday it would support rich communication services (RCS) on iPhones with an update next year to improve messaging with non-iPhone users.

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Apple will, at long last, enabling end-to-end encryption for RCS messages, allowing iPhones and Android phones to text each other with the security encryption provides for the first time.

Despite Apple's efforts to minimize it, RCS will improve how you text your Android friends. Unfortunately, we don't know everything that RCS will enable on your iPhone.

Apple finally brought RCS (Rich Communication Services) to iPhones with the release of iOS 18 in September. Currently, Apple’s implementation of the RCS protocol is only available in iMessage.

Apple has finally added support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) to its Messages app. The feature arrived as part of the second developer beta of iOS 18 earlier this week.

Apple just showed off RCS in action for the first time. Our preview is very limited, but I can confirm: the bubbles are still green.

Apple didn’t mention RCS until the very end of the iOS 18 segment, with Craig Federighi quickly mentioning “RCS messaging support” at the very end of it. And that was all Apple had to say ...

Apple has confirmed that RCS messages will, like text messages, be green. So if someone is buying an iPhone to be part of the blue bubble club, then they will still do so after this change.

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