iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-to-End Encrypted in iOS 26.5

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages betwixt iPhone and Android devices is officially available, Apple confirmed today. Support is included successful iOS 26.5, which is present disposable to everyone.


End-to-end encrypted ‌RCS‌ messaging is disposable successful a beta capacity, adjacent though it is successful the motorboat mentation of iOS 26.5. The diagnostic is disposable with supported carriers and volition rotation retired implicit time, and for conversations to beryllium encrypted, some the receiver and the sender indispensable usage a bearer that supports the latest mentation of ‌RCS‌.

Apple says that it worked with Google to pb a cross-industry effort to adhd E2EE to ‌RCS‌. iOS users volition request iOS 26.5, portion Android users volition request the latest mentation of Google Messages.

End-to-end encryption is connected by default, and determination is simply a toggle for it successful the Messages conception of the Settings app. Encrypted messages are denoted with a tiny fastener symbol.

E2EE means that messages sent betwixt devices cannot beryllium intercepted and work by a 3rd party. On iPhones not moving iOS 26.5, ‌RCS‌ messages betwixt iPhone and Android users bash not person E2EE, but the caller update volition enactment Android to iPhone conversations connected par with iPhone to iPhone conversations that are encrypted done iMessage.

Along with Google, Apple worked with the GSM Association to instrumentality E2EE for ‌RCS‌ messages. E2EE is portion of the ‌RCS‌ Universal Profile 3.0, published with Apple's assistance and built connected the Messaging Layer Security protocol. ‌‌RCS‌‌ Universal Profile 3.0 besides includes editing and deleting messages, cross-platform Tapback support, and replying to circumstantial messages inline during cross-platform conversations.
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