iOS 18 Rolling Out RCS To the iPhone For Better Android Messaging

Apple today is rolling out iOS 18, introducing support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) to enhance messaging between iPhone and Android devices with features like typing indicators, read receipts, and higher resolution media. 'However, there continues to be no end-to-end encryption (E2EE), with work towards that between Android and iOS continuing,' notes 9to5Google. The feature will be enabled by default on iPhones with major U.S. carriers supported, but smaller MVNOs are not yet included.

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