Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 

IPhone and Android users will be able to exchange encrypted RCS messages to one side in the near future thanks to the newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2e based on the MLS safety protocol, allowing the inter -operating encoding between the various platform providers for the first time.

The GSM Association said it started working to enable E2e on the messages sent between Android and iPhone in September last year. E2EE is the feature of privacy and safety that prevents third parties, such as messages or cellular transport companies, from displaying your text content. GSMA says the new RCS standard has been developed in cooperation with “mobile operators, hardware manufacturers and technology providers”, including Apple.

“The encryption from a run to end is a strong technology and safety supported by IMessage from the beginning, and now we are happy to help lead an interstate industry effort to bring a comprehensive encryption to the global RCS profile published by GSMA,” said Apple Power, a spokesman for Apple Shen Power. “We will add support to RCS messages from end to end to iOS, iPados, MacOS and Watchos in future software updates.”

Apple provided RCS support for iPhone devices as part of the iOS 18 update in September. Although the Apple IMessage system is already supported E2EE, it has not been extended to RCS messages because the previous RCS standard did not provide support across basic systems. Google messages also enabled E2e virtual for RCS texts, but only conversations between Google messages that users were E2e, not those who were exchanged with IMessage users or other RCS customer users on Android.