From the moment when the RCS lived in iOS18 and the world of iPhone owners joined the party that has happened to us on Android, it has really been a lost piece to make it a great cross platform messaging experience. I am talking about E2EE from the end to the end, of course, which we hoped to arrive without waiting. As it turns out, we must end seeing that this last piece is displayed within a year.
GSMA Announced Today that Universal Profile 3.0 Specifications (Here), Which are standards for which the RCS runs, now sets and these platforms include encryption from end to end. Yes, that means encryption of messages between iOS and Android.
Although this is a great news for fans of security and privacy, it does not mean that your messages between Android and iPhone devices will still be encrypted. Instead, this is just a declaration that new RCS sunglasses have been compiled and now everyone can prepare them. We will need Apple and iOS to enforce this new standard as well as Google.
Both Apple and Google confirmed Stuffy That they are really ready to do so, Apple has confirmed that they will prepare it in the next version of iOS (Plus iPados, Macos, and Wachos), which should be iOS 19. Google has just said that they are committed to a safe experience of messaging and will “work as soon as possible” to make it a cross platform.
Big news.
