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Google is simply as delighted about RCS on the iPhone as we are– a lot so that it can’t wait to inform Android users about it. In a brand-new site promoting the advantages of Google Messages, Google inadvertently teased the arrival of RCS on iOS “in the fall of 2024.”
The since-deleted referral (very first identified by 9to5Google) is a very finely veiled referral to iOS 18, which will show up in September along with the brand-new iPhones. When Apple revealed in November that RCS was concerning the iPhone “later on next year,” all of us presumed that implied it would show up as an iOS 18 function and now we have some verification of that.
The primary concern that stays is whether Apple will permit it on all iOS 18 phones or simply the iPhone 16 designs. When it revealed RCS, Apple simply stated RCS would “work together with iMessage, which will continue to be the very best and most protected messaging experience for Apple users.” That does not always suggest it will deal with all older phones, though there must be no technical reason that it would be restricted just to brand-new gadgets, and it would be uncommon for Apple to reveal any function special to a brand-new iPhone far ahead of its unveiling.
Google didn’t provide any information about particular RCS functions in iOS aside from it will bring “a much better messaging experience for everybody.” Google is among the biggest suppliers of RCS through its messaging app on Android, so it makes good sense that Google would be associated with the procedure.
Google keeps in mind on the page that RCS discussions in between Google Messages users are “safeguarded by end-to-end file encryption,” which hasn’t been assured for iOS. While Google provides file encryption within its own app, it does so with its own exclusive extension to RCS; Apple is dealing with the RCS consortium to develop end-to-end file encryption into basic, which will safeguard all messages send out from the Messages app on an iPhone.
Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor
Michael Simon has actually been covering Apple given that the iPod was the iWalk. His fixation with innovation returns to his very first PC– the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for switching out the drive. He’s still waiting on that to come back in design tbh.