{"id":666575,"date":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:45:10","slug":"apple-google-begin-deploying-encrypted-rcs-messaging-across-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666575\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google Begin Deploying Encrypted RCS Messaging Across iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tApple and Google have led a cross-industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to Rich Communication Services (RCS), making the cross-platform messaging format that replaces traditional SMS more secure and private.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tStarting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inarticlemodule\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3O6vm9O\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"k2_lazy k2_lazy_small\" data-loaded=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026_campaign_1_728.jpg\" src-small=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,%3csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 728 90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Comarch\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"k2_lazy k2_lazy_small\" data-loaded=\"false\" src-small=\"\/img\/images\/Comarch\/2026_campaign_1\/2026_campaign_1_150.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=UTF-8,%3csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 300 150\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Comarch\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWhen RCS messages are end-to-end encrypted, they can\u2019t be read while they\u2019re sent between devices. Users will know that a conversation is end-to-end encrypted when they see a new lock icon in their RCS chats. Encryption is on by default and will be automatically enabled over time for new and existing RCS conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tiMessage was built with privacy in mind and has always been end-to-end encrypted. It remains the best way to communicate between Apple devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Apple and Google have led a cross-industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to Rich Communication Services (RCS),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,245874,61],"class_list":["post-666575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-encrypted-rcs-messaging","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}