Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages is preparing to add new deletion capabilities for RCS chats. You will soon have an option to delete RCS chats for yourself or for everyone, including you and the recipient. Google Messages ...

Talk about an emotional rollercoaster! Recently, Samsung gave us the news that it would be getting rid of one of its oldest apps, Samsung Messages. In its stead, Galaxy users would have Google Messages out of the box. Be that ...

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google announced an RCS upgrade for 911 texting last year, and the rollout is expected in winter across the US. In line with this rollout announcement, we’ve spotted new code within Google Messages that ...

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Several Redditors have reported issues when texting between Android devices and iPhones. The users noted that RCS worked for a short time before reverting to SMS despite the availability of data connectivity. Apple finally ...

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After a couple of limited rollouts, Google Messages is once again rolling out dual-SIM RCS support to more users. The feature is available in several parts of the world on both the beta and ...

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Google Messages beta supports MLS encryption, RCS’s next step toward E2EE interoperability across apps and platforms. We managed to enable MLS for one-on-one RCS conversations in Google Messages, but we haven’t been ...

For years Google has been pushing RCS as a new replacement for SMS, the current messaging standard. There are many reasons why RCS is superior including support for higher resolution images and video, bigger file sizes, send/receive notifications, and much ...

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple has updated its list of US carriers that support RCS messaging functionality. The list includes major players as well as loads of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). Apple finally introduced RCS support to ...

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) 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 ...