Apple continues to improve the expected compatibility with RCS messages with 18.4! Conversation The second beta version of iOS 18.4 has been available since this week and with it, more new products that we hope to see during the official launch. Among them, It has been confirmed that the compatibility of RCS messaging at the ...
Apple added support for the Google-supported Rich Communication Services (RCS) message standard with iOS 18. RCS was created by the cellular industry to add advanced media and other features to messaging that would work on all operating systems. Google adopted RCS in Android about five years ago and it is available for most phones that ...
Google thought Apple’s introduction of RCS (Rich Communication Services) would solve everything, but the messaging protocol is still far behind iMessage due to lack of carrier support, device support and encryption. According to a listing from Foxt Dev, RCS support is limited to a few popular carriers in the United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, ...
iPhone owners are in luck these days, it’s no wonder that iOS 18 brings a fair amount of new features to phones. And there’s one that’s welcome to us on Android: the iOS update finally brings RCS messages, those Free SMS that Google has been promoting for years. We explain how you can send them. ...
Ever since Apple shocked the tech community by announcing that it would support RCS in an upcoming iOS release, we’ve been wondering exactly how it would work. Now that the feature is available in the second developer beta of iOS 18, we have a good idea of how it works and can answer your most ...
Google is just as excited about RCS on iPhone as we are, so much so that it can’t wait to tell Android users about it. In a new website touting the benefits of Google Messages, Google accidentally teased RCS coming to iOS “in fall 2024.” The since-deleted reference (first spotted by 9to5Google) is a thinly ...
This week we are lucky because we are going to have a lot of new things in the Apple world. It is very likely that throughout this week we will have among us iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, the next major update of the iPhone and iPad operating systems. In addition, a few hours ago ...
Apple “surprised” us by launching the new iPad and iPad Pro with M2 processor, two new tablets from the guys from Cupertino who arrive to renew the company’s range and the truth is that although we expected them, they surprised us. And it is that they were necessary changes, especially in the “cheap” iPad, in ...
Tim Cook hasn’t been shy about being blunt when it comes to shutting down the debate over whether Apple should whether or not to adopt the RCS messaging standard. The company’s CEO recently took part in the Vox Media Code 2022 debate, where he was asked whether iMessage should be more open to RCS. “I ...
If it’s not for the good, it will be for the bad. At Google, they got tired of waiting and launched a campaign directly accusing Apple of breaking the messaging experience between iOS and Android and publicly calling on them to adopt a standard. “The bad experience you have while chatting on Android is created ...
