Your iPhone RCS chats with Android are encrypted in iOS 26.5: How to verify E2E is enabled ...

Apple and Google start rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS chats in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on ...

Last year, Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the time, iOS 18 was still the latest version of iOS – thus implying that the upgrade ...

One of the most notable additions in iOS 26.5 is end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging. This feature bridges the communication gap between iPhone and Android users, ...

iOS 26.5’s RC is available now, along with official release notes, and with them Apple has confirmed that the update will bring a key RCS upgrade to the Messages app. Messages app to support RCS ...

Apple's iOS 26.5 update introduces RCS end-to-end encryption, FaceTime call filtering, and over 50 critical security fixes for iPhone users.