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Now, however, Apple is changing its tune.
We believe the RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS.
They’ll be able to send and receive high-resolution photos and videos from their phones to your iPhone.
Group messaging could become platform agnostic.
And they’ll be able to share their location with you through RCS-supported messaging.
There is, naturally, a wrinkle here.
The RCS standard still doesn’t support end-to-end encryption.
Apple, which has offered encrypted messaging for over a decade, is kind of a stickler about security.
Apple offered no details on which iOS update might include RCS support.
And it’s unclear just how many generations of iPhone will support the communication standard.
The announcement also comes just days afterNothing skirted Apple’s RCS rejectionand brought iMessage to its Android-based phones.
At the time, many wondered how Apple CEOTim Cookmight react to this “cheeky” move.
There’s no indication that this is a direct reaction.
The body clearly achieved some success withUSB-C ports that are now featured on all iPhone 15models.
Surely, the EU would’ve been compelling Apple to adopt RCS in 2024.
Now it doesn’t have to bother.
Apple is on board.
By the way, no word on if this RCS support will introduce a third message bubble color.
Updated 11-16-2023 4:45 PM ET:Added a comment from Google.
