OS 18.4 brings a big expansion of RCS support inside the Messages app, bringing improved iPhone-Android messaging to lots of new users.

Apple has long resisted RCS, favoring its proprietary iMessage ecosystem. However, increasing regulatory pressure in the U.S. and Europe, along with persistent lobbying by Google and Android OEMs, may ...

Apple has promised that an important security upgrade is coming to the Messages app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. In a ...

We will add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS ... has long been secure, but SMS has not. Which is why messaging between Android and iPhone hasn’t matched that of ...

Leaked iOS 19 mock-ups reveal rounded icons, shimmering menus, and dual camera recording ahead of Apple's big WWDC 2025 reveal.

SMS messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox. YouTube channel Front Page Tech is back today with another video that provides a closer look at iOS 19's ...

RCS is a long-standing effort to enable SMS ... messages are safe from snooping. Apple has offered E2EE since it launched iMessage back in 2011, though of course that only worked between iOS ...

Although the first mobile phones resembled bricks and weighed 88 pounds, no one could have predicted that in the next 70 ...

Whether you use an iPhone ... of the message, as well as the email address or phone number that sent the iMessage, plus the date and time you received it. Apple doesn’t deal with SMS and MMS ...

Apple initially enabled RCS on iPhone in 2024, after 17 years of forcing iPhone users to text other platforms over SMS, with the caveat that end ... “We will add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS ...