RCS assist will likely be added to the iPhone someday in 2024
Whereas Apple has publicly solely stated that it’ll add RCS messaging assist to iOS later in 2024, a Google announcement seems to pin it down additional.
Apple’s November 2023 announcement that it will add RCS messaging assist to the iPhone, dedicated to it being completed “later subsequent 12 months.” The addition, presumably pressured on the corporate by China, is presumably taking months as a result of Apple is ignoring Google’s RCS in favor of engaged on a brand new model with a requirements physique.
“Apple has introduced it will likely be adopting RCS within the fall of 2024,” stated Google’s web page. “As soon as that occurs, it would imply a greater messaging expertise for everybody.”
Strictly talking, Fall 2024 begins on September 22, which is prone to be after the launch of the iPhone 16 Pro, and subsequently additionally the general public launch of iOS 18. It is not clear if it will likely be within the early betas of iOS 18 anticipated at WWDC 2024.
Observe, too, that Google’s web page is a collection of brief segments that come out to optionally provide extra element. It is sufficiently busy and with so many such parts, that this quote cannot be discovered with a search on the web page.
Consequently, it is doable that the announcement is solely buried someplace on the web page. Or it might be that the announcement has since been eliminated, and Google’s search is displaying up solely cached earlier variations.
Google’s new web page does fairly clearly embody an evidence that “RCS stands for ‘Wealthy Communication Providers’ and is the trendy messaging expertise commonplace.” Oddly, it does not point out RCS’s issues, or how Google has previously failed to completely undertake this itself.
