RCS (“Chat features”) in Google Messages can be great when it works: typing indicators, better group chats, higher-quality media, and Wi‑Fi messaging in some cases. When it doesn’t work, the symptoms ...

Apple is testing encrypted RCS messaging in iOS 26.4 beta — but it's not available if you want to message Android phones.

Google Messages shows check marks and other symbols on your texts to hint at what's happening behind the scenes. Here's what ...

Apple added RCS support to iPhone with iOS 18.1, enabling richer cross-platform messaging between iPhone and Android users. This ...

RCS finally came to Apple this year, after so long, and it’ll be heading to Wear OS soon too. Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a purchase through ...

The latest update to the Universal Profile (v3.1) behind RCS brings support for improved audio quality in voice messages and other media. Announced today by the GSMA, Universal Profile 3.1 delivers a ...

Google has added PDF support to RCS messages in Google Messages, starting with India. Businesses can now send tickets, invoices, and receipts via PDF directly in chats. One of the perks of using ...

Apple’s iOS 18 update is here, and perhaps lost among the company’s flashy unveilings was its much-antipicated adoption of the Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging standard. RCS, often referred ...

T-Mobile has confirmed to Android Authority that 613 million RCS messages are sent over its network each day in the US. This comes shortly after Google announced that over one billion RCS messages are ...

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At first, I wasn’t sure how to do that. After all, telling them that Messages would support a new messaging protocol for better communication with Android has absolutely no sex appeal to it. Something ...