Apple is lastly giving in and embracing Wealthy Communication Companies (RCS) on its iPhones. The tech large revealed its plans to implement the communication protocol on its smartphones.
As a part of its WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple revealed that RCS will arrive on its smartphones as a part of iOS 18 which is able to arrive this fall. Although Apple didn’t dive into particulars in the course of the keynote, the iOS 18 overview grid as proven beneath, reveals that RCS help might be added into the subsequent main software program replace to iPhones.
As Apple beforehand instructed 9to5Mac final yr, RCS implementation on iPhones doesn’t imply the corporate is “opening up messaging to different platforms.” RCS is the messaging customary used for many Android gadgets. Nonetheless, Apple has resisted supporting RCS regardless of stress from firms similar to Google and Samsung.
Apple’s earlier resistance to RCS help has additionally sparked the “Blue Bubble vs. Inexperienced Bubble” debate, the place two iPhone customers exchanging messages might be blue bubbles, whereas an iPhone texting an Android consumer will show a inexperienced bubble on the iPhone, signifying the message was despatched utilizing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)/Brief Message Service (SMS). The totally different coloured bubbles will stay unchanged; nonetheless, as Apple beforehand pledged, RCS messages will stay inexperienced, not blue.
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Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You’ll be able to comply with her on Twitter @TayNixster.
