Google has released a promotional video for a new iPhone feature

Ahead of the release of iOS 18, Apple has, as promised, added support for the RCS standard, which allows iPhone and Android users to message more efficiently.

As promised, Apple has added support for the RCS standard, which allows iPhone and Android users to exchange messages more efficiently.

Google, welcoming the innovation, even released a themed video to emphasize its importance. After prolonged criticism of iMessage from Google, Apple has finally relented and integrated RCS support into its mobile operating system. The feature will be available on all iPhones with iOS 18 in September.

The feature will be available on all iPhones with iOS 18.

In its video, Google showed how messaging between users across platforms will improve. Photos in shared chats will be clearer, and there will be “Prints…” and “Message read” indicators.

The video showed how Google’s messaging will be improved across platforms.

Despite these improvements, however, Android users will continue to see “green bubbles,” and Google hasn’t said anything about encryption.

And despite these improvements, Android users will continue to see “green bubbles,” and Google hasn’t announced anything about encryption.

According to Android Police, Apple is implementing RCS based on the Universal Profile 2.4 standard, which provides for intermediate rather than end-to-end encryption.

At the same time, Google is promoting a cross-platform E2EE standard called MLS, which may soon integrate into Universal Profile 2.4 and provide end-to-end encryption.

So the introduction of RCS on the iPhone is a step toward Google, but with certain limitations. In the future, with the introduction of MLS, the possibility of end-to-end encryption could become a reality.

At some point in the future, it’s possible that end-to-end encryption could become a reality.