{"id":373306,"date":"2026-03-30T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373306\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:27:16","slug":"a-new-rcs-update-could-connect-iphone-and-android-video-calls-someday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373306\/","title":{"rendered":"A new RCS update could connect iPhone and Android video calls, someday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">iPhone and Android users might be able to make interoperable video calls through their messaging apps \u2014 eventually. Last week, the GSM Association (GSMA) announced that the finalized RCS Universal Profile 4.0 standard will let users turn 1-to-1 or group RCS chats into video calls thanks to a feature called Messaging\u2011Initiated Video Calls (MIVC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cMIVC will ensure the continuity of the conversation by allowing group members to join an ongoing video call that they could not accept when it started, as well as synchronise MIVC logs within the chat timeline,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/article\/from-rich-text-to-video-rcs-universal-profile-4-0-has-arrived\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the GSMA says<\/a>. \u201cWhen implemented, MIVC paves the way for the first natively supported video call experience that\u2019s interoperable across a wide range of devices and networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">However, Apple and Google haven\u2019t yet announced support for this feature, so it\u2019s unclear if or when you might be able to turn chats across platforms into a video call right from your messaging app. Apple and Google didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">RCS Universal Profile 4.0 also supports text formatting, allowing users to add styles like bold, italics, and strikethrough to text in their messages, and it lets users share \u201chigher quality\u201d audio, video, and images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"iPhone and Android users might be able to make interoperable video calls through their messaging apps \u2014 eventually.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2723,936,1711,61,6931,60,43,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-373306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ios","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373306","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=373306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}