More Than 1 Billion RCS Messages Are Sent Daily on Android and iOS

Over a cardinal RCS messages are sent connected a regular ground successful the United States, Google said today. ‌RCS‌, oregon Rich Communication Services, is simply a connection protocol that replaced the anterior SMS and MMS messaging standards.


It was developed by the GSM Association, but Google has been championing it for years. Apple held retired connected adopting ‌RCS‌ for rather immoderate time, but finally added support with the motorboat of iOS 18. On devices moving ‌iOS 18‌, ‌RCS‌ is the default messaging protocol for texts betwixt an iPhone idiosyncratic and an Android user.

Apple's adoption of ‌RCS‌ has undoubtedly accrued the fig of ‌RCS‌ messages sent per day, but Google's 1 cardinal fig includes Android to Android substance messages on with Android to ‌iPhone‌ substance messages (and vice versa).

‌RCS‌ is simply a notable betterment implicit SMS and MMS, and it makes for a amended texting acquisition betwixt ‌iPhone‌ users and Android users, arsenic Android users can't instrumentality vantage of iMessage. Some of the ‌RCS‌ features:

• Support for higher solution photos and videos.


• Support for larger record sizes and record sharing.


• Audio messages.


• Cross-platform emoji reactions.


• Real-time typing indicators and work receipts.


• Better radical chats with enactment for removing people.


• The enactment to nonstop messages implicit cellular oregon Wi-Fi.

For ‌iPhone‌ to ‌iPhone‌ conversations, iMessage is inactive the default, but ‌RCS‌ has made "green bubble" texting with Android users little of a hassle.

‌RCS‌ is supported by the large carriers successful the United States, but immoderate smaller carriers similar Boost Mobile, Mint Mobile, Ting, and others person yet to adhd support.
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