Apple’s Messages app could be about to get much better, if a promise that Apple made earlier in the year comes good at WWDC, the company’s big developer conference that kicks off on Monday, June 9.

What this means in practice is that your RCS messages will finally get the same kind of protection iMessage has had for years. With end-to-end encryption, every message — whether it’s text, an image, ...

While you can enjoy Microsoft and Google apps on iOS, the opposite is generally not true, with Apple keeping the majority of its apps and services locked away in its own ecosystem. It would be a safe ...

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Apple previously confirmed plans to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages in a future software update We’ve now spotted code that suggests end-to-end encryption could be coming to RCS messages on ...

Apple announced in March that it would support RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in a future software update. That “future update” is expected to be iOS 26–either in September or soon after. RCS 3.0 will ...

New evidence found in iOS 26.3 beta 2 suggests that end-to-end encryption for RCS messages is nearing reality, nearly a year after Apple first announced its support for the feature. For iPhone users ...