Apple spent years ignoring RCS, allowing iPhones to offer a degraded messaging experience with Android users. This made Android folks unwelcome in many a group chat, but Apple finally started ...

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Here's how you can check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol and how to enable it on your iPhone. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station ...

When RCS messaging became available on the iPhone with the rollout of iOS 18, the technical director of the GSM Association teased that the next major milestone for the messaging standard is the ...

Apple’s iOS 26.3 update is shaping up to be far more significant than a routine software refresh. While earlier versions of iOS introduced RCS support.

Apple is preparing a major upgrade to iPhone messaging that could finally narrow the long-standing gap between iMessage and texts sent to Android phones. With i ...

Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End ...

PayPal Holdings (NasdaqGS:PYPL) and Authvia have entered a partnership to enable text-based payments via SMS and RCS ...

Consumers receive billions of calls and texts from bad actors each year, and as a result they’re afraid to respond.” — Scott ...

iOS 18.4 is currently in beta testing, and with the recent beta 2 debut, it brought long-awaited RCS messaging support to not only Google Fi users, but also customers of some other big US carrier ...

Apple has announced that it will add support for end-to-end encryption to RCS messaging on iOS, although there are few details about when this will happen. Now as first spotted by 9to5mac, the RCS ...