Apple has introduced that it is going to be including assist for RCS messaging on iPhone from early subsequent yr.
As reported by our associates at TechRadar, RCS is a communications system developed by the GSM Affiliation and used throughout a lot of the Android ecosystem. Apple’s refusal to assist the usual has been a supply of a lot discontent as a result of its adoption on iPhone would convey a lot better interoperability between iPhone and Android with regards to sending messages.
It is potential assist will finish the basic Inexperienced and Blue bubble divide that has plagued the 2 camps.
“Later subsequent yr, we will likely be including assist for RCS Common Profile, the usual as at present printed by the GSM Affiliation. We consider the RCS Common Profile will supply a greater interoperability expertise when in comparison with SMS or MMS. This can work alongside iMessage, which is able to proceed to be one of the best and most safe messaging expertise for Apple customers,” Apple mentioned in a press release.
No extra blue and inexperienced?
In response to the report Apple has acknowledged “that RCS is an enchancment over MMS and SMS however made it clear that RCS shouldn’t be changing iMessage and its host of options like memojies, stickers, and the power to edit and unsend messages.”
RCS will come to the iPhone in a software program replace after which it is as much as carriers so as to add it. The one timeframe given is “early subsequent yr.”
Whereas this has been touted as an finish to the aforementioned inexperienced bubble situation, there’s nothing to point that Apple will not hold its shiny blue bubbles for iMessage whereas leaving RCS messages inexperienced, similar to it does with SMS or MMS. Additional particulars reveal Apple is not going to assist any extensions that attempt to add encryption on high of RCS, which will likely be fascinating given RCS messages will not be end-to-end encrypted, in contrast to iMessage. As 9to5Mac notes, it should convey some cool options like learn receipts, higher high quality photos, and typing indicators.
It follows a weird story this week during which Nothing revealed it had created a technique to ship iMessage from Android with a really sketchy workaround that includes giving the corporate your Apple ID username and password.
Whether or not this step paves the best way for iMessage on Android units and past is one other story solely, and nothing about Apple adopting RCS would require the corporate to make its iMessage service any extra open or interoperable. That is not less than some excellent news for customers speaking between the 2 platforms.
Given this will likely be a software program replace, we are able to assume it is a function coming to all of Apple’s iPhone vary supported by iOS 17, together with its greatest iPhone the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Professional.