Apple provides new APIs to third-party developers in the European Union that enable cellular phone calls and SMS, MMS and RCS messaging within apps.
While the iOS Messages app supports a typing indicator within conversations, it’s possible with a jailbreak to have a system-wide typing indicator that you can see from anywhere in iOS when someone begins typing to you, even if you’re not currently using the Messages app.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to send an RCS message from your iPhone to another iPhone or Android device, provided you have RCS messaging enabled and it's supported by your carrier.
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.
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.
The iPhone's Messages app on iOS 18.1 correctly displays RCS emoji reactions from Android owners instead in a separate line like before.
Communicating with other people via the iPhone and iPad’s native Messages app is about to change for the better with the onset of iOS & iPadOS 18.
RCS is coming to iPhones, with Apple rumored to introduce support for the messaging standard in an update to iOS 18 arriving by the end of 2024.
If you haven’t already heard, Apple announced plans to incorporate RCS (Rich Communication Services) to supplant SMS and MMS in a future iOS update. This is a major departure from Apple’s previous stance on this issue and was undoubtedly fueled by hard pushes from global governments and end users alike.
Apple has confirmed that RCS chats will have green bubbles on your iPhone, like SMS and MMS. The blue bubble shall remain exclusive to iMessage.
Apple explains Rich Communication Services (RCS) support will work alongside iMessage, enhancing messaging between the iPhone and Android.