Android-iPhone texting is on track for a long overdue upgrade

by dbadmin | Mar 14, 2025 | Apple, Apple Messages and iMessage, Google, google messages, News, RCS

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority 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,...

iMessage has some great animations, and here are my favorites

by dbadmin | Mar 7, 2025 | Apple, Apple Messages and iMessage, Guides

Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of their iPhone-carrying friends in the same group chats, ignoring that...

Android and Apple users: Critical RCS messaging protection is still months away despite FBI warning

by dbadmin | Dec 16, 2024 | Apple Messages and iMessage, Cybersecurity, google messages, News, RCS

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) has said that it’s working on bringing end-to-end encryption to different messaging platforms that support the RCS protocol. Unfortunately, the industry body did not share a...

Samsung’s fine print reminds us of one big drawback of RCS chats with iPhone users

by dbadmin | Nov 20, 2024 | Apple, Apple Messages and iMessage, Google, google messages, News, RCS

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A press note from Samsung re-highlighted how encryption is available only for Android-to-Android RCS chats. Google Messages on Android supports end-to-end encryption through a custom implementation on top of RCS Universal...

Poll: Have you started using RCS on your iPhone?

by dbadmin | Oct 7, 2024 | Apple iPhone, Apple Messages and iMessage, News, Polls, RCS, Survey

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Apple recently caved to pressure from users, lawmakers, and Google to bring RCS messaging to the iPhone. This feature essentially allows users to enable modern messaging features such as read receipts, typing indicators, and...

PSA: With RCS now on iOS, be careful when renaming group chats

by dbadmin | Sep 23, 2024 | Apple iOS, Apple Messages and iMessage, google messages, News, RCS

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority It turns out that Android phone owners can rename a group text for iOS owners in the group. Apple has long allowed any iPhone users in a group text to rename the group, though. By contrast, Google Messages previously allowed you...