Published on: 2025-06-06 17:52:41
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 22:37:01
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest version of the Google Messages app finally makes it easy to see if a contact uses RCS. Contacts now have an “RCS” badge to the right of their name. This is a welcome departure from having to open a chat with each contact to see if they use it. Google Messages has supported RCS for years now, but one missing feature is the ability to quickly check which contacts are using this standard. We discovered last month that Google was working on RC
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 02:30:37
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has confirmed to Android Authority that 613 million RCS messages are sent over its network each day in the US. This comes shortly after Google announced that over one billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US. T-Mobile has since clarified Google and its own messaging figures. Update: May 20, 2025 (01:00 AM ET): T-Mobile has contacted us to clarify Google and its own RCS messaging figures. This comes after Google reported that over a bill
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 14:38:48
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR RCS ads have been a thing on Android for a while now, but now, even iPhone users in the US are receiving them. Screenshots show a swipeable carousel ad for a sporting event, but there is no immediately visible button to unsubscribe from such ads. RCS has exploded in popularity ever since iPhones started supporting the communication protocol. Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US daily, which is most definitely a whole lot. W
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 19:30:37
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has confirmed to Android Authority that 613 million RCS messages are sent over its network each day in the US. This comes shortly after Google announced that over one billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US. In other words, T-Mobile is responsible for the majority of RCS messages sent each day in the market. Google announced earlier this week that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US each day. Now, it turns out that one car
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 13:54:11
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 20:06:01
During the Android Show leading up to Google I/O, Google on Tuesday offered a brief update on the adoption of the RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol, an upgrade to SMS that offers high-resolution photos and videos, typing indicators, read receipts, improved group chat, and more. The company shared that the messaging standard now supports over a billion messages per day in the U.S. This metric is based on an average of the last 28 days, Google noted. The stat is notable because Google f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:00:45
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US every day. This figure comes over six months after Apple adopted the standard on iOS. RCS enables features like high-quality media sharing, typing indicators, and more. Google has embraced RCS on Android for years, and Apple finally joined the party last year. Now, the search giant has announced a key milestone for the modern texting standard. Google announced in a blog post t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:56:33
After a years-long wait, Apple finally added RCS messaging support to the iPhone last year, and that’s resulted in over 1 billion RCS messages being sent every day in the US alone between both Android and iOS devices. Even before Apple adopted RCS, the tech was being used quite widely across Android. In November 2023, Google confirmed that its Messages app – the main portal for RCS on Android – had amassed over a billion monthly active users. Fast-forward to 2025, post-iPhone adoption, and RCS
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 01:06:01
During the Android Show leading up to Google I/O, Google on Tuesday offered a brief update on the adoption of the RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol, an upgrade to SMS that offers high-resolution photos and videos, typing indicators, read receipts, improved group chat, and more. The company shared that the messaging standard now supports over a billion messages per day in the U.S. This metric is based on an average of the last 28 days, Google noted. The stat is notable because Google f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 12:11:17
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a UI change in the latest version of the Google Messages app. Videos sent via RCS have a delete shortcut instead of a forward icon. This would make for a much quicker way to delete videos. Google Messages is the go-to texting app on Android phones, and it supports the RCS standard for a more modern messaging experience. Now, it looks like the company is testing an interesting change to videos received via RCS. Authority Insights st
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 20:00:10
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 06:21:49
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 17:24:00
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-05 05:44:04
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-06 06:55:04
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 21:51:02
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 13:11:49
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 13:22:53
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-12 21:18:36
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-15 06:42:34
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-03 08:00:31
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 01:48:09
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 13:48:09
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 16:21:26
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 15:40:26
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-08 16:40:38
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 04:09:27
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 04:31:53
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: 2025-10-09 16:00:20
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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