Apple's support for RCS has finally gone live with iOS 18, enabling cross-platform messaging with advanced features. End-to-end encryption for cross-platform RCS chats appears to be in the pipeline.

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One of the downsides of RCS messaging for a while was a lack of support for end-to-end encryption but, now, the GSMA has announced that the latest update to RCS will add the long-awaited security ...

Apple has announced that it will add support for end-to-end encryption to RCS messaging on iOS, although there are few details about when this will happen. Now as first spotted by 9to5mac ...

And one major update was announced today: RCS will now support end-to-end encryption using the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a standard finalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force ...

Now, six months later, GSMA has released an updated set of specifications for RCS messaging, which includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol.

The GSM Association (GSMA), the organization responsible for developing the Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, announced on Tuesday that it is working to implement end-to-end encryption ...

prompting the FBI to recommend using platforms with full end-to-end encryption. Currently, RCS chats are encrypted in transit, and most Android-to-Android chats use full end-to-end encryption.

Apple today announced it will add support for end-to-end encryption for RCS messages. This brings RCS much closer to iMessage in terms of security standards. The new RCS Universal Profile 3.0 ...

has said that it’s working on bringing end-to-end encryption to different messaging platforms that support the RCS protocol. Unfortunately, the industry body did not share a specific timeline ...

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