But thanks to RCS, you no longer have to sign up for a third-party messaging service to access features like read receipts and location sharing. Rich Communication Services, or RCS, is the ...

Wear OS smartwatches cannot send RCS messages independent of a phone connection. A future update to Google Messages could enable standalone RCS on Wear OS smartwatches, letting you send and ...

Strings in the latest Google Messages beta reveal RCS could soon come to Wear OS. Google Messages on Wear OS currently displays the content from its Android app to send and receive texts. With RCS, ...

Support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) is one of the lesser-known features in iOS 18, which is now available for everyone. RCS is an enhanced version of SMS for text messaging, and its ...

Please verify your email address. Previously, US carriers were slow to warm up to RCS messaging protocol. While iPhone owners have had iMessages for years, Android users often relied on third ...

Google attacks iPhone on RCS—again. Some weeks ago, Apple’s attack ad on Google hit our screens, with the iPhone maker’s short remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” slamming Chrome ...

The era of SMS and buggy MMS is coming to an end, and the torchbearer for mobile communication is going to be RCS. Championed by the likes of Google as a leveler for digital conversations ...

Apple's adoption of the RCS protocol in iOS 18 has improved communications in iMessage between users of iPhones and Android, but some security issues remain. Apple and Google are working together ...

Apple's iOS 18 is bringing the RCS protocol to the Messages application, paving the way for iPhone users to enjoy a much more comprehensive messaging service than simply sending and receiving SMS ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Rich communication services (RCS) launched this week in iOS 18, improving messaging with Android phones with support for group chats, reactions ...