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Apple officially rolls out RCS for iPhone

2024-09-18 14:11 by
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With the launch of iOS 18, iPhone users are finally able to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. But beyond Apple's support of RCS, each carrier needs to activate the capability - and for now, many carriers have yet to jump on the bandwagon.

RCS, or Rich Communications Service, is a messaging standard released by Google a few years ago. Designed to replace SMS messaging, RCS is a more modern standard that can handle richer content.

With RCS enabled, texts from your iPhone to Android users can include larger file attachments, higher-quality photos and videos, audio messages, read receipts, more types of emojis, and smoother group chats.With RCS on iOS, you'll get major improvements like high-resolution media, typing indicators, and read receipts when you're texting with people on other phones that also support RCS. In its iOS 18 press release, Apple also highlights support for "more reliable group messaging compared to SMS and MMS."

In the US, RCS is available on the iPhone via the three major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile), many regional providers, and a few mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). RCS support also varies across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and India. In general, the major carriers tend to offer it; the smaller ones, not so much.

Apple is only supporting the basic RCS standard, called RCS Universal Profile, which doesn't have cross-platform end-to-end encryption. That means if you're texting your friend who use Google Messages, those messages won't be encrypted like they are if you're texting with another iPhone user over iMessage.

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