Samsung has confirmed it is now shutting down its Messages app. Starting in July, it will be removed from app stores and will ...

Google Messages might soon rely on you to nudge your friends to turn on RCS with built-in prompts. A new feature will autofill an invite for your SMS-only contacts, making it super easy to rope them ...

A new archival function for Google's RCS Messages is designed to help companies with record-keeping and responding to legal requests related to employee communications. As Google explains, it's to ...

Google has added PDF support to RCS messages in Google Messages, starting with India. Businesses can now send tickets, invoices, and receipts via PDF directly in chats. One of the perks of using ...

The latest update to the Universal Profile (v3.1) behind RCS brings support for improved audio quality in voice messages and other media. Announced today by the GSMA, Universal Profile 3.1 delivers a ...

RCS is a developed communication protocol that modernizes text messaging using a user’s mobile data plan to send text messages via SMS or MMS. Google began promoting widespread use of RCS in 2019, ...

T-Mobile has confirmed to Android Authority that 613 million RCS messages are sent over its network each day in the US. This comes shortly after Google announced that over one billion RCS messages are ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said it was working to implement the privacy feature for messages sent between ...

Apple tested end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users in the iOS 26.4 beta, but Apple made it clear the functionality was not going to launch in the iOS ...

Jack Philbin: RCS is the much-needed upgrade from traditional SMS/MMS, that brings a more interactive and engaging experience to messaging. Think of it as an app-quality experience, but without the ...