Improving the exchange of SMS with Android devices on iOS 18 New possibilities of approach, appearing after the introduction of RCS, alter a great many things. Here is how to seize it.
Switching messages from an iPhone to an Android phone has at last received the clearance to become slightly smarter. Following numerous grumbles from Android customers and the iPhone’s neglect of such messaging services, Apple is presently introducing RCS on its iPhone. This is going to be a stronger messaging standard that is going to take over the roles of SMS in its communication with Android devices and help to exchange more secure messages and higher picture quality closer to what is here today with two iPhones. iPhones will still be sticking with propriety when two iPhones are talking to each other but if there is an Internet connection it will flip to RCS when necessary.
RCS will even let you send reactions to Android phones just as you may with iMessage to chat another iPhone. Android phone began leveraging on RCS in the year 2019. RCS messaging on the iPhone might be, actually, one of the biggest updates with iOS 18. This is so because many people have always wished and anticipated that this would happen for a long time. Even the U. S. Department of Justice got involved.Notable companies that had been implicated included;
However, there are still some concerns: RCS on the iPhone will not eliminate the blue bubble vs green bubble as all RCS messages appear to be green bubbles in iOS. It should erase, basically, security concerns that users have for one another which also, at the same time, should allow the multiple form of communication between the users at both ends.
RCS is getting more and more popular, but how experiment with it on iPhone?
If you do not wish to await iOS 18 to be released officially sometime later this year, you can do so now. For this, you would first have to download the latest compatible iOS 18 beta (currently beta 2 at the time of writing). It has to be enabled on Your carrier and on the carrier networks You are connecting through.
RCS should be enabled by default in this release, but just in case, here’s how to do it:RCS should be enabled by default in this release, but just in case, here’s how to do it:
Open Settings in iPhone.
At the very bottom of the page, tap Apps.
Find Messages in the list and tap on it.
Scroll down until you see “RCS Messaging.” Make sure it’s turned on.
Start a conversation with an Android user. If RCS is supported, you will see “Text Message – RCS” in the message field.
As I said above, the main requirement to take advantage of RCS in iOS 18 beta 2 is that your carrier supports it. This will change over time, of course, but you don’t have to do anything on your end. Feel free to check back regularly.
