RCS (“Chat features”) in Google Messages can be great when it works: typing indicators, better group chats, higher-quality media, and Wi‑Fi messaging in some cases. When it doesn’t work, the symptoms ...

Apple added RCS to the iPhone, but crucially, the current implementation lacks end-to-end encryption. That's changing in the latest beta.

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

The latest RCS Universal Profile 3.0 introduces end-to-end encryption as a standard to RCS chats to work across the board, including iPhones. Apple plans to roll out the new RCS profile to enable ...

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...

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Several Redditors have reported issues when texting between Android devices and iPhones. The users noted that RCS worked for a short time before reverting to SMS despite the availability of data ...

Apple notes that the encrypted messages are just a test and aren't available for all devices, carriers, or regions yet.

iOS 26.4 Developer Beta 2 holds the key ...

Apple has released the second beta of iOS 26.4, expanding end-to-end encryption for RCS messages to include Android users.

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