iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts

With the 2nd iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google person started investigating end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged betwixt iPhone and Android users.


Apple started testing E2EE for RCS successful the archetypal beta, but the diagnostic was constricted to iPhone-to-iPhone communications with iMessage turned off. In this beta, ‌iPhone‌ users tin nonstop encrypted messages to Android users.

‌iPhone‌ users volition request to instal the 2nd beta of iOS 26.4 to speech encrypted messages with Android users, portion Google users request to person the latest mentation of Google Messages.

According to Apple's developer merchandise notes for beta 2, portion E2EE is being tested for ‌RCS‌, it isn't going to vessel successful iOS 26.4 and volition alternatively travel astatine a aboriginal date.
In this beta, RCS end-to-end encryption volition go disposable for investigating betwixt Apple and Android devices. This diagnostic is not shipping successful this merchandise and volition beryllium disposable to customers successful aboriginal iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS 26 releases. End-to-end encryption is successful beta and is not disposable for each devices oregon carriers. Conversations labeled arsenic encrypted are encrypted end-to-end, truthful messages can't beryllium work portion they're sent betwixt devices.
Apple worked with the GSM Association to instrumentality end-to-end encryption. iMessage, which is utilized for texts betwixt iPhones, has agelong supported end-to-end encryption. Android's ‌RCS‌ implementation already has E2EE for Android-to-Android texts, but determination is nary afloat encryption for iPhone-to-Android and Android-to-iPhone conversations astatine the existent time.

E2EE is not disposable for each devices oregon each carriers during the beta investigating period.
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