{"id":301429,"date":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:08:07","slug":"apple-starts-testing-end-to-end-encrypted-rcs-messages-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301429\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple starts testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messages on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple is <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/ios-ipados-release-notes\/ios-ipados-26_4-release-notes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starting to test<\/a> end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with the developer beta of iOS 26.4 released Monday. Apple announced plans last year to support the feature, and once fully available, it will let iPhone and Android users send encrypted RCS messages to each other across platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">However, with this initial implementation, Apple is only testing RCS encryption between Apple devices. It\u2019s \u201cnot yet testable with other platforms,\u201d Apple says. The company also doesn\u2019t plan to ship E2EE RCS messages with iOS 26.4; the feature will actually ship publicly in a \u201cfuture update,\u201d Apple says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">RCS messages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/17\/24246695\/apple-iphone-ios-18-rcs-green-bubbles-android-upgraded\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">significantly improve<\/a> the experience of texting between iPhone and Android devices, but cross-platform encryption has been a big thing missing. The GSM Association, which helps develop RCS, announced in September 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/17\/24247414\/rcs-texts-iphone-e2ee-android-gsma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that it was working<\/a> on E2EE messages as part of the \u201cnext major milestone\u201d for the RCS Universal Profile, and Apple said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/629620\/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in March 2025<\/a> that it would support E2EE RCS messages on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in \u201cfuture software updates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is starting to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with the developer beta of iOS 26.4 released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[936,61,6931,60,216,80],"class_list":["post-301429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ie","tag-ios","tag-ireland","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}