{"id":11474,"date":"2024-06-16T05:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T05:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11474"},"modified":"2024-06-16T05:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T05:20:48","slug":"a-guide-to-rcs-why-apples-adopting-it-and-how-it-makes-texting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=11474","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to RCS, Why Apple\u2019s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"


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If you’ve been<\/span> keeping up with all the news out of WWDC 2024<\/a> this week, you’ll know that Apple is bringing the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard to iPhones later this year with iOS 18. That’s a win for Google, which has long backed RCS on Android. But what actually is RCS? And why does supporting it matter?<\/p>\n

The short version: It’s an upgrade on the standard SMS\/MMS texting standards that smartphones have been using from the start. It brings better support for all the cool features we’re used to in our messaging apps, like read receipts and images, and it adds some extra security layers too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s a lot like using iMessage from Apple, or using WhatsApp\u2014though it’s not quite that simple. There’s no RCS app you can install, but you can find apps that support the RCS standard, as we’ll explain.<\/p>\n

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