Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice ...

Android and iPhone users will finally be able to send end-to-end encrypted text messages to each other. The feature started rolling out in beta on Monday ...

RCS messaging is now rolling out in beta through iOS 26.5, developed in collaboration with Google and the GSMA, the organization behind the RCS standard. The update brings a major privacy upgrade to ...

Cross-platform Android-iOS RCS chats are finally getting an added layer of privacy with end-to-end encryption. Here's what's new.

Google has announced the rollout of end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging for cross-platform chats between Android and iPhone users. The feature is now arriving in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 ...

Your iPhone's Green Bubble Messages Get Safer With iOS 26.5: Look for the Lock ...

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...

The new feature, which is meant to increase security and privacy, isn't available to all iPhone users.

Apple and Google have finally (FINALLY!) released end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between both ecosystems, a long-awaited upgrade that brings cross-platform privacy protections to perhaps the most ...