Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18
www.theverge.com
Ding dong, the SMS is dead.

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.

Right now, when people on iOS and Android message each other, the service falls back to SMS — photos and videos are sent at a lower quality, messages are shortened, and importantly, conversations are not end-to-end encrypted like they are in iMessage. Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats and chaos ensues.

Apple’s announcement was likely an effort to appease EU regulators.

  • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    20 days ago

    Yea, like that would ever in literally any possible incarnation of any possible existence where Apple is a thing happen. Totally.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      That wasn’t what I was saying though. I was talking about what should happen, not what is likely to happen, and criticising the EU for pushing for the wrong thing.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      I mean, in the Steve Jobs Apple it might have.

      Steve originally pushed for web apps to dominate on the emerging open web standards.

      Apple used to care about the customer more than they do now (IMO).