Support for end-to-end encryption for texts between iPhone and Android is coming soon via the latest Rich Communication Services (RCS) 3.0 protocol.
Encrypted RCS texting between iPhone and Android is coming soon
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iPhone users notice RCS messaging enabled for more carriers on iOS 18.4 beta 2
After Apple seeded its second beta build of iOS 18.4 to developers for testing this week, many testers took to Reddit and various other social media platforms to share that Rich Communication Services (RCS) became available on handsets powered by carriers that previously didn’t support it – namely some of T-Mobile’s smaller Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in the United States.
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