The blue chat bubble means RCS is on, but I'm still waiting on the lock icon that's supposed to follow it.

The newer form of text marketing, rich communication services, delivers more engagement from shoppers but a richer price tag ...

With the second beta of iOS 27, Apple added support for replying to a specific message in an RCS conversation with an Android ...

With the second iOS 27 developer beta, users can now long-press or swipe to reply to an RCS message and send an inline reply, ...

Apple's iOS 27 developer beta adds inline reply support for RCS-based green bubble chats, enhancing cross-platform messaging ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes. Apple says ...

Google Messages, the default messaging app on Android phones, could soon get new features that will let you unsend texts like third-party messengers. The unsend functionality is reportedly under ...

Apple’s Messages app got some big upgrades in iOS 18, but one with the biggest potential impact—RCS support—has had a slow rollout among some carriers. Fortunately in iOS 18.4, Messages is bringing ...

Apple has released the latest iOS 26.5 beta, and it brings a familiar feature to the Messages app as the RCS technology sees the return of end-to-end encryption. Apple Messages' RCS Sees End-to-End ...

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands.