Apple Confirms iPhone Messages To Gain Serious Upgrade
Apple has confirmed that changes are afoot which will significantly improve messaging between Apple and Android handsets.
Apple will soon encrypt iPhone-to-Android messages just like iMessage
Macworld When Apple released Messages with RCS support in iOS 18 last year, it was missing a key security feature: end-to-end encryption. At the time, Apple said it would wait until encryption was part of the RCS Universal Profile before bringing it to Messages.
Apple will finally enable encrypted RCS messages between iOS and Android, and it's about time
Apple will, at long last, enabling end-to-end encryption for RCS messages, allowing iPhones and Android phones to text each other with the security encryption provides for the first time.
End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone coming in future software update
In collaboration with the GSM Association, Apple today announced it will add support for end-to-end encryption for RCS messages.
RCS on iPhone will finally get end-to-end encryption
The GSMA published a blog post to announce the new features coming to RCS. The iPhone is getting end-to-end encryption RCS messages via the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol:
Apple sharing RCS encryption with Android users
When Apple added RCS support to iOS 18, the company used an older version of the protocol. This caused chat messages between iPhone and Android users to be unencrypted. Fortunately, Apple has already agreed to update to the latest RCS protocol, thereby permanently fixing the issue.
iPhone RCS Chats Will Soon Gain End-to-End Encryption
Today, the GSMA made it official in the RCS Universal Profile 3.0, and, true to its word, Apple is already preparing to adopt the new profile, bringing full E2EE to RCS conversations between iPhone and Android users.
Apple to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages
Apple has announced that a future update will bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to RCS messages across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. This means that, like iMessage—which has offered E2EE by defaul
Apple Tips Upcoming Encrypted RCS Messaging Between iOS, Android
With the GSMA releasing new RCS specs, Apple pledges to 'add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in future software updates.'
RCS messaging adds end-to-end encryption between Android and iOS
When RCS messaging became available on the iPhone with the rollout of iOS 18, the technical director of the GSM Association teased that the next major milestone for the messaging standard is the addition of interoperable end-to-end encryption.
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Imagine a world of the near future where Android and Apple iOS users can message one another with the certainty that their communication is secured against eavesdropping by end-to-end encryption (E2EE).
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GSMA Announces E2EE for RCS with Apple’s Support
Apple was slow to adopt RCS, to put it politely, but the iPhone maker is onboard for the next generation RCS specification.