In November, Apple introduced that the iPhone would support the cross-platform messaging standard RCS (Wealthy Communication Providers) within the Messages app beginning “later” in 2024, and Google has now revealed a extra slender timeframe.
In a since-deleted part of the revamped Google Messages web page, noticed by 9to5Google, Google mentioned that Apple can be adopting RCS on the iPhone within the “fall of 2024.” This timeframe means that RCS help will likely be added to the iPhone with iOS 18, which needs to be accessible in beta in June and launched in September. On the newest, help needs to be added in iOS 18.1, which is more likely to be launched in October.
RCS help ought to consequence within the following enhancements within the Messages app for conversations between iPhones and Android smartphones:
- Larger-resolution pictures and movies
- Audio messages
- Typing indicators
- Learn receipts
- Wi-Fi messaging
- Improved group chats, together with the flexibility for iPhone customers to go away a dialog that features Android customers
These fashionable options are already accessible for iMessage, and in lots of third-party messaging apps, resembling WhatsApp and Telegram. RCS help on the iPhone will prolong the options to inexperienced bubbles within the Messages app.
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