RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

Green Bubble Chats on iPhone Still Have a Major Security Issue

It's been about six months now since Apple's big iOS 18 update introduced RCS support to the iPhone. In many ways, it's been a game changer: Ditching SMS for RCS has meant group chats function better, and videos are sent in higher quality. But there's still one big drawback to RCS on iPhone that has yet to be fixed: Your messages aren't encrypted. What is RCS?To fully understand the issue, it's important to know what RCS actually is. RCS stands …

RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.

Apple Will Fully Encrypt RCS Messages Between Androids and iPhones

Texting a Green Bubble will feel as native as engaging another iPhone user on iMessage.

RCS messages between iPhones, Galaxy phones to get more secure

Over the past few years, Google has been pushing to make RCS the new standard for messaging. And for that to happen, Apple needed to adopt RCS for iPhones. A few months ago, Apple adopted RCS with iOS 18. However, RCS messaging between Android and iPhones wasn't as secure as it should be. Finally, RCS messaging between Android and iPhone will be secure with end-to-end encryption. RCS to get end-to-end encryption between Android and iOS (iPhone…

Apple will introduce a number of texting upgrades in iOS 19, here's whats coming - TECHTELEGRAPH

Yesterday, Apple announced that it will be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in “future software updates.” While this does have one large benefit of bringing end-to-end encryption to iPhone users using RCS, it has a number of other benefits that aren’t yet being mentioned. iOS 18 uses a dated version of RCS When Apple introduced RCS messaging to iPhone as part of iOS 18, it supported version 2.4. This still introduced a number of quality of l…

The RCS messaging system introduces end-to-end encryption to secure exchanges between Android and iOS platforms.