Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration

Andrew wrote:

While I'm on record for not caring about RCS with Android...

It's not the be all, end all for me either.

RCS should help in platform compatibility and RCS should help four ways:
1. Those who pay for MMS will get to use RCS for free, instead.
2. Large video/audio will be platform compatible
3. Group chats won't be mangled on iPhones
4. RCS adds something about read receipts I'm not familiar with

depending on settings, you can tell if a message is delivered and/or read, also there's a setting so you can see if the other person is currently typing.

I'm not sure about encryption though, Andy.
What's the situation with RCS encryption currently between iOS & Android?

It's end-to-end for android-to-android is all I know, from the sounds of it android-to-iphone encryption isn't very likely.
None of my iphone contacts will be running developer firmware, so conversations with them they haven't "lit up" as RCS chats yet.