Just how popular is RCS messaging? Google announces a major US milestone.

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 that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US every day. The company said this figure was an average over the last 28 days. How does this figure compare to global usage, though? We’ve asked the GSMA and will update our article as soon as the organization has an answer. We also asked Google how this one billion figure compares to daily usage in previous years. The company only referred to its previously disclosed figure of over one billion monthly active users with RCS enabled via Google ... Read full article.