Published on: 2025-05-02 10:00:10
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages is preparing new RCS labels for contacts. The app will soon display an RCS tag next to the names and numbers of contacts using RCS. In addition to the RCS label, Google Messages is also tweaking the contact list UI to differentiate RCS-enabled users by color. Google Messages appears to be working on a useful improvement that would make it easier to see which of your contacts are using RCS (Rich Communication Services). The feature isn
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Rusty Cascading Style Sheets (RCSS) Tip Download the VSCode extension for syntax highlighting! Rusty Cascading Style Sheets (RCSS) is a styling language that brings Rust-inspired syntax to CSS. It combines the robustness of Rust with SASS-like features such as nesting and variables for cleaner, more maintainable styles. let variable: "#FFFFFF"; let breakpoint: "768px"; fn padding() { padding: 20px; } .container { padding(); h2 { color: blue; } } h4 { width: 50%; color: green; } /* MOBILE STYL
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Why it matters: Imagine you're deep in the backcountry when a bear suddenly appears, sizing you up. Typically, you'd reach for your tried-and-true can of bear spray – trusted by wildlife experts and often even more reliable than firearms. However, one adventurous DIY YouTuber has built something far more theatrical: the Bear Blaster 5000. Drawing from over 20 years of experience in high-voltage engineering, Jay Bowles from the Plasma Channel created a device that emits fierce, crackling sparks
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Update, April 4, 2025 (12:44 PM ET): We have now heard back from Google regarding our inquiry into this problematic Messages behavior, and the company confirms that it has both received these reports, and is doing something about them: We’re aware of an issue affecting a set of Google Messages users and have a fix rolling out in an update next week. We appreciate the feedback and will continue to work quickly to address any messaging issues users might have. While you still may have a few more
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A recurring Google Messages bug prevents some users from activating RCS, leaving devices stuck with SMS. Users have found that clearing the app cache and data for Google Messages and Carrier Services can fix the issue, as can reverting to a December 2024 version of Google Messages. We’ve contacted Google to learn more about the issue. Google Messages has emerged as the primary medium of RCS messages on Android flagships, so it’s crucial that RCS mess
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Last year, Apple began rolling out RCS suppor t with iOS 18, finally opening the door to richer communication between Android and iPhone users instead of defaulting to SMS. The only catch was that Apple Messages didn’t directly support RCS for most carriers, requiring wireless providers to supply their own carrier bundle for it to work, which isn’t cheap. As a result, many prepaid carriers were left waiting for support, but that changes with iOS 18.4. We reported yesterday that Google Fi now su
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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 the feature to a lot of new users, including those on Google Fi, Mint Mobile, and more. RCS expansion hits Messages for new carriers in iOS 18.4 RCS is the best way for iPhone and Android users to message each other. Unlike the longtime SMS standard, RCS enables a variety of great iMessage-like fea
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Apple spent years ignoring RCS, allowing iPhones to offer a degraded messaging experience with Android users. This made Android folks unwelcome in many a group chat, but Apple finally started rectifying this issue last year with the addition of RCS support in iOS. It has been a slow rollout, though, with Google's mobile service only now getting support. While Apple supports RCS messaging on iPhones now, it has not exactly been enthusiastic about it. Anyone using Google Fi on an iPhone was left
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR RCS messaging on iPhones is now finally available to Google Fi subscribers. The feature is rolling out to compatible iPhones with the iOS 18.4 update. Users can enable it by tapping on the RCS Messaging toggle in the Messages app settings. Apple finally jumped on the RCS bandwagon with iOS 18 last year, allowing iPhone and Android users to communicate with richer messaging features instead of sticking to plain old SMS. However, RCS support in Apple’s Mes
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Center Parcs removes X account from website after fake account set up Center Parcs removed the link after being contacted by BBC News, and conceded the links "should have been removed" from its website when it stopped using X. Carl Lennon, an IT consultant, registered an X account with this name when he noticed it was available, and said he started getting messages from customers asking to change their bookings. Center Parcs deleted its X account in January, which meant the @CenterParcsUK han
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The RCS Universal Profile v2.7 introduces new features like message editing and the ability to remotely delete sent texts. Google Messages has been working on implementing remote deletion since at least last month. While still not publicly available, we’re now able to preview how remote deletion will look in the app. RCS finally arrived in full force last year, changing the way many of us message. Not only were walls falling down between Android and
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Yesterday, Apple announced that it will be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in “future software updates.” While this does have one large benefit of bringing end-to-end encryption to iPhone users using RCS, it has a number of other benefits that aren’t yet being mentioned. When Apple introduced RCS messaging to iPhone as part of iOS 18, it supported version 2.4. This still introduced a number of quality of life improvements for texting Android users, such as higher quality images, read recei
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Yesterday, Apple announced that it will be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in “future software updates.” While this does have one large benefit of bringing end-to-end encryption to iPhone users using RCS, it has a number of other benefits that aren’t yet being mentioned. When Apple introduced RCS messaging to iPhone as part of iOS 18, it supported version 2.4. This still introduced a number of quality of life improvements for texting Android users, such as higher quality images, read recei
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It’s been less than a year since iPhones were granted the ability to send messages to Green Bubbles unfettered, and only now is proper end-to-end encryption making an appearance. Better late than never. The GSM Association announced new specifications for RCS, requiring it to be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) based on a protocol called the Messaging Layer Security (MLS). The organization laid out the plan in a press release, citing the need to provide users with “the highest level of privacy and se
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Messaging between iPhones and Android devices might become a lot more secure soon. The GSMA, a nonprofit that develops the Rich Communication Services standard, announced Friday that it's adding interoperable encryption to RCS messaging, allowing for end-to-end encryption between different providers. Both Apple and Google collaborated with the GSMA on the protocol. According to The Verge, both companies will implement it. "These procedures ensure that messages and other content such as files re
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One of the best mostly invisible updates in iOS 18 was Apple's decision to finally implement the Rich Communications Services (RCS) communication protocol, something that is slowly helping to fix the generally miserable experience of texting non-iPhone users with an iPhone. The initial iOS 18 update brought RCS support to most major carriers in the US, and the upcoming iOS 18.4 update is turning it on for a bunch of smaller prepaid carriers like Google Fi and Mint Mobile. Now that Apple is on b
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Maria Diaz/ZDNET 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 to security risks. Now, Apple will soon eliminate that obstacle. Also: Google Fi users finally get RCS on iPhone - here's how to check if it's activated In a new announcement, Apple said it will add support for encrypted RCS messages in future updates to iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and
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Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) yesterday published new specifications for the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol that include support for cross-platform E2EE. RCS is a long-standing effort to enable SMS-style cross-platform communications with richer features, such as group messaging, typing indicators, read receipts, and file-sharing — similar to what messaging apps such as Wha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 06:00:20
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. Now, six months later, GSMA has released an updated set of specifications for RCS messaging, which includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. The new RCS profile will ensure that messages and files remain sa
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iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time. The GSM Association said it had started working to enable E2EE on messages sent between Android and iPhone in September last ye
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messaging between iPhone and Android users is coming soon via the new Universal Profile 3.0 specifications from GSMA. The new standard supports the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, which enables interoperable E2EE across different client implementations, improving security. Apple has committed to incorporating the new standard in future software updates, so we’ll still have to wait for adoption. iPhone users f
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In collaboration with the GSM Association, Apple today announced it will add support for end-to-end encryption for RCS messages. This brings RCS much closer to iMessage in terms of security standards. The new RCS Universal Profile 3.0 including end-to-encryption was only just released today, so it’s not clear exactly when this support will ship to customers. Apple said it helped lead a cross industry effort to bring end-to-encryption to the RCS Universal Profile … Apple first added RCS support
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iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time. The GSM Association said it had started working to enable E2EE on messages sent between Android and iPhone in September last ye
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR iOS 18.4 Beta 2 appears to add an RCS toggle for Google Fi and T-Mobile MVNOs, but activation of the feature is still pending for some users. This marks a shift from September when Google said Apple needed to enable RCS for iPhone users on Google Fi. Full activation may require backend carrier setup or could arrive with the stable version of the iOS update. Apple’s support for RCS messaging on iPhones took a major step forward with iOS 18, allowing iPhon
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Google Fi subscribers will now be able to swap rich text messages with their Android counterparts, courtesy of the latest iOS 18.4 beta. Released on Monday, the second public beta of the new OS brings RCS (Rich Communications Service) not only to Google Fi but to MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators) that use T-Mobile's network. After years of waiting, Apple added support for RCS with the launch of iOS 18 last September. Before then, iPhone and Android users could exchan
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 08:42:21
iOS 18.4 is currently in beta testing, and with the recent beta 2 debut, it brought long-awaited RCS messaging support to not only Google Fi users, but also customers of some other big US carrier holdouts: Mint Mobile, Boost Mobile, and more. Here are the details. Mint Mobile and Boost Mobile now support RCS, alongside Google Fi and more RCS messaging is a newly supported feature in iOS 18 that makes texting between iPhones and Androids perform way better than before. That’s because RCS is a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 01:52:47
Apple yesterday released the latest iOS 18.4 beta and it enables support for RCS on Google Fi. iPhone users on the Google MVNO have been waiting for this improvement to Android-iOS messaging since September. With iOS 18.4 beta 2, the RCS Messaging toggle appears in Settings > Apps > Messages for Google Fi subscribers. The “Waiting for activation…” process might take a moment. More broadly, iOS 18.4 appears to enable support for MVNOs that use T-Mobile’s network in the US. When iOS 18 launched
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR It seems iOS 18.4 Beta 2 is introducing the ability to use T-Mobile’s default RCS carrier bundle on any prepaid provider that runs on the Uncarrier’s network. For now, only select Mint Mobile users have successfully activated the feature, but the bundle appears to be designed for all T-Mobile Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) that don’t offer their own direct RCS solution. It’s likely that this broader RCS expansion won’t happen until iOS 18.4
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