The blue chat bubble means RCS is on, but I'm still waiting on the lock icon that's supposed to follow it.

Karandeep has been with Android Police as a freelance writer since 2019, covering reviews for India, buyer’s guides for the US, and handy tutorials for everyone. He cares more about the impact of ...

Macworld Apple continues to close the gap between iMessage and RCS conversations. With the second beta of iOS 27, which was ...

With the second beta of iOS 27, Apple added support for replying to a specific message in an RCS conversation with an Android ...

Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your ...

RCS, filters, mentions, and backgrounds help to modernize Messages. On every new iPhone, I check these settings and features ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

OS 27 beta 2 RCS upgrades bring native emoji reactions and inline replies to cross-platform chats, narrowing the Android-iOS ...

Apple's iOS 27 developer beta adds inline reply support for RCS-based green bubble chats, enhancing cross-platform messaging ...

RCS has long been heralded as a substantial improvement over traditional SMS. It brings modern features such as read receipts, typing indicators, and the ability to send high-resolution images and ...

There has now been a change spotted on Google Messages, which saw the "No Encryption" logo gone from under each chat sent to Apple's iPhone RCS, indicating that end-to-end encryption may arrive soon.

Google Messages, the default messaging app on Android phones, could soon get new features that will let you unsend texts like third-party messengers. The unsend functionality is reportedly under ...