In November, Apple introduced that the iPhone would help the cross-platform messaging normal RCS (Wealthy Communication Providers) within the Messages app beginning “later” in 2024, and Google has now revealed a extra slim timeframe.
In a since-deleted part of the revamped Google Messages net web page, noticed by 9to5Google, Google mentioned that Apple could be adopting RCS on the iPhone within the “fall of 2024.” This timeframe means that RCS help might be added to the iPhone with iOS 18, which must be obtainable in beta in June and launched in September. On the newest, help must be added in iOS 18.1, which is prone to be launched in October.
RCS help ought to outcome within the following enhancements within the Messages app for conversations between iPhones and Android smartphones:
- Increased-resolution photographs and movies
- Audio messages
- Typing indicators
- Learn receipts
- Wi-Fi messaging
- Improved group chats, together with the power for iPhone customers to depart a dialog that features Android customers
These trendy options are already obtainable for iMessage, and in lots of third-party messaging apps, comparable to WhatsApp and Telegram. RCS help on the iPhone will lengthen the options to inexperienced bubbles within the Messages app.
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