iOS 18.4 brings RCS messaging to some of the last big carrier holdouts

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 more modern messaging protocol than SMS—the previous standard for non-iMessages. But due to the way the technology works, Apple adding RCS support in iOS 18 did not automatically bring the feature to all iPhone users. Instead, each carrier had to implement its own RCS support. All of the biggest US carriers have supported RCS on iPhone for a while, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Plenty of smaller carriers have also enabled RCS messaging. But some of the main holdouts to this point hav ... Read full article.