New EFF campaign urges Apple and other tech companies to ‘Encrypt It Already’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is out with a new campaign that presses tech companies to move faster to protect…
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Google declares the green vs blue bubbles debate ‘silly and tired’
Today’s Made By Google event was full of interesting announcements, ranging from the new Pixel 10 lineup and the Pixel…
Security Bite: Apple could announce cross-platform E2EE for RCS messaging at WWDC
9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe…
iOS 18 rolling out RCS to the iPhone for better Android messaging
Apple today is rolling out iOS 18 with support for RCS in a huge boost to the iPhone-Android messaging experience.
Google working on RCS encryption between Android and iPhone
With RCS rolling out on the iPhone yesterday, Google is looking ahead on new features including cross-platform end-to-end encryption (E2EE)…
Google gently pushes Apple to adopt RCS by pointing out the poor security of SMS fallback
Messaging has always been a tough point for Android phones compared to iPhones simply because iMessage is, put simply, very…
Google exec gives harshest rebuke yet of iMessage lock-in effect in push for RCS on iOS
Hiroshi Lockheimer oversees all of Google’s operating systems as Senior Vice President of Platforms and Ecosystems. In recent years, he…
RCS messages will use green bubbles, Apple confirms
Earlier today, Apple announced its plans to bring RCS support to the iPhone in 2024. Since I published my story…
RCS update standardizes message replies, editing, reactions, more for Android & iPhone
The GSMA Association (GSMA) is responsible for maintaining Rich Communication Services (RCS) and the latest update to the standard adds…
Google says Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in ‘fall of 2024’
The Android website has added a new landing page for Google Messages that talks about the first-party messaging experience, while…
Google uses Drake’s ‘Texts Go Green’ to pressure Apple to adopt RCS on the iPhone [Video]
In recent months, Google has been publicly pressuring Apple to adopt RCS on the iPhone, and its latest volley involves…
Google Fi waiting on Apple to enable RCS for iPhone users
iOS 18 is rolling out today with RCS to improve the Android-iPhone messaging experience, but support is not yet enabled…
Google starts ‘Get The Message’ campaign to pressure Apple into RCS on the iPhone
For the past year, Google has been increasingly calling out Apple for not adopting RCS (Rich Communication Services) on the…
iOS 18.4’s Messages app adds RCS features for lots of new users
Apple’s Messages app got some big upgrades in iOS 18, but one with the biggest potential impact—RCS support—has had a…
Apple reportedly ‘in discussions’ to support RCS, the iMessage-like successor to SMS
Our colleagues over at 9to5Google have regularly reported on a new standard referred to as Rich Communications Services – or…
Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone
Following the news that Apple is adding RCS support to the iPhone, Google is out with a statement this afternoon.
Google continues spending keynote time to remind us iPhones don’t support RCS
Google is holding the 2023 edition of its annual I/O conference today, and the company announced many new things for…
Google says it’s not asking for iMessage on Android in needling Apple to adopt RCS
After critical comments on Saturday, Android chief Hiroshi Lockheimer is back with some “thoughts and clarifications” on RCS and iMessage.
Apple is taking credit for Google adding iMessage reactions on Android
Before Google’s “Get The Message” campaign in August, Android’s Messages app was updated with iMessage reactions at the start of…
iMessage and RCS: An unlikely pair we all want to see [Video]
iMessage is pretty great, there’s no denying that, but adding RCS support to the app would make a better user…
Comment: iOS should support RCS, but Apple has no incentive to make iMessage work with Android
Over the past year, Google has publicly pressured Apple to support Rich Communication Services. The latest salvo this weekend was…
Messaging is no longer Android’s mess, it’s an iPhone problem: Talking RCS with Hiroshi Lockheimer
A few weeks ago, at MWC 2023, I had an opportunity to sit down with Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president…
iOS 18.1 to enable RCS for iPhone users in China
With iOS 18, Apple has finally introduced support for Rich Communications Services, or RCS, to the iPhone. As we’ve been…
RCS is coming to iOS, but will it change anything for most iPhone users?
It’s official: Apple will add support for the RCS messaging standard in iOS. This won’t happen until the end of…