- iPhone and Android customers can textual content extra seamlessly with improved message reactions.
- Apple started supporting RCS messaging on iPhones in 2024, enhancing cross-platform communication.
- iPhones have to be up to date to iOS 18 or later to allow RCS.
iPhone and Android house owners can textual content extra seamlessly now due to a change that was rolled out within the final couple of months.
This small change to the best way that messages seem between iPhones and Androids comes as Apple faces an antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Division accusing the tech big of illegally sustaining a monopoly on smartphones.
Now, when you personal an iPhone and your pal with an Android reacts to your textual content with an emoji, it will not show in a separate textual content. In different phrases, there is no extra spelling out the response, like “Justine beloved ‘On my means!'”
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It is unclear precisely when the change occurred, but it surely’s the results of additional updates to RCS messages, or Wealthy Communication Providers, and you may want iOS 18.1 in your iPhone, The Verge reported.
Apple launched assist for RCS messaging in iOS 18, which may be enabled within the Settings App. When RCS messages are enabled, an RCS indicator will seem in textual content threads.
Enterprise Insider confirmed the latest modifications to texts between the 2 platforms by sending some messages from an iPhone and Android. Reactions from iPhone additionally now seem seamlessly on Androids as effectively.
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Apple first revealed plans to convey RCS messaging assist to iPhones in 2024 — a change that Google had been pushing the iPhone big to make for years. Neither Apple nor Google instantly responded to requests for additional touch upon the change.
RCS works over mobile knowledge and WiFi not like SMS and MMS messaging, which solely work utilizing mobile knowledge.
With RCS assist, texts between iPhones and Androids now have learn receipts, typing bubbles, and improved reactions.
