Apple today filed a response to the antitrust lawsuit it is facing from the United States Department of Justice, sharing ...

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's previous resistance to RCS support has also sparked the "Blue Bubble vs. Green Bubble" debate, where two iPhone users exchanging messages will be blue bubbles, while an iPhone texting an ...

Apple's implementation of RCS will depend on carriers to update their mobile service bundles. So far, only the big three US carriers (Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile) have made the necessary changes.

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 ...

Because of Apple’s longtime refusal to add support for RCS, texting with Android users meant no typing indicators or read receipts, broken group chats and blurry photos and videos.

Apple is using the RCS Universal Profile. This seems to be a lower standard of RCS than what users get with Android. As such, there’s no end-to-end encryption.

Apple, as usual, has been rather tight-lipped about what RCS support in the iOS Messages app will actually look like, so we have no idea which RBM features (if any) it will support.