Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18
www.theverge.com
Ding dong, the SMS is dead.

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.

Right now, when people on iOS and Android message each other, the service falls back to SMS — photos and videos are sent at a lower quality, messages are shortened, and importantly, conversations are not end-to-end encrypted like they are in iMessage. Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats and chaos ensues.

Apple’s announcement was likely an effort to appease EU regulators.

  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    5 months ago

    If you’re relying on iMessage for privacy, ensure you and everyone you’re messaging have gone to iCloud settings and enabled “Advanced Data Protection”

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      Absolutely, and excellent advice. Most of my folks I talk about

      pirated

      Uhh

      movies

      …we’ll just say THC cuz it’s legal here

      with, whether it enabled or not, we go through Signal iPhone or Android

      edit: I read this again and it’s a terribly worded post but I think ya get it