Apple has announced that it will support RCS messaging starting with iOS 18. The long-awaited news came at WWDC 2024, the company’s annual developer conference.
The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU. Unfortunately, we don’t know anything other than the fact that it’s coming in iOS 18.
RCS offers typing indicators and read receipts, allows you to send longer messages, and supports higher-quality images and videos. In other words, it’s a lot like iMessage. It’s become the standard messaging protocol on Android phones as US wireless carriers fully adopted it over the past five years, but Apple has been stubbornly withholding support. Starting with iOS 18, some of those iMessage-like features will finally be available in cross-platform chats.
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