Google says 1 billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US following iPhone adoption

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 is being used more than ever. Google says that, just in the United States over a 28-day (average) period, users are sending “more than a billion” RCS messages daily. Advertisement - scroll for more content Over the last few years, we’ve been focused on improving how people connect, no matter what phone they have. That’s why we helped make RCS the messaging standard for Android and iOS. Now, in the U.S. alone, there are more than a billion RCS messages sent every day (based on an average o ... Read full article.