Samsung has confirmed it is now shutting down its Messages app. Starting in July, it will be removed from app stores and will ...

Getting Apple to adopt industry-wide standards feels a bit like pulling teeth sometimes. It was only after years of pressure from the tech space and the EU implementing new regulations that the ...

With iOS 26.4 beta 2, Apple announced it will finally start offering developers the ability to test RCS end-to-end encryption between iOS and Android devices. While this new message standard won't be ...

RCS 4.0 will kill FaceTime, if you can wait until Android 19 ...

After the first beta was iPhone to iPhone only, the second iOS 26.4 developer beta lets iPhones and Androids trade fully encrypted RCS messages for the first time. You may recall that in the first iOS ...

On March 26, 2026, GSMA announced that RCS 4.0 had arrived. This newest version of the rich text communication protocol isn't just a few fancy features. It's a defining update that brings Android text ...

RCS message open in iPhone messaging app - Kafka Ibram/Shutterstock After years of back and forth about blue bubbles and green bubbles, Apple finally addressed the need for better text messaging ...

Apple is now testing end-to-end encryption for RCS between iPhones and Android devices in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. This builds on last week’s rollout for iPhones only. The feature is still in beta and won’t ...