With a new page on its Android website, Google urged Apple to use the RCS messaging standard for texts sent from iPhone phones to Android phones. Apple currently uses the SMS and MMS standard for these messaging.
RCS is not actually a new standard. It was announced in 2017 and officially started to be used in 2019. At this year’s I/O event, Google announced that more than 500 million people are currently using RCS on the Android platform.
If Apple supports RCS, all text messages between iPhones and Android devices can support many more rich features such as sharing large media files, read receipts, write indicators and send messages over Wi-Fi. Both iMessage and RCS platforms already support these options. But Apple has always been hesitant about RCS, and we shouldn’t expect that to change in the near future…
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