{"id":239013,"date":"2026-05-04T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5-apple-must\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:10:09","slug":"apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5-apple-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5-apple-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple confirms RCS messaging for iPhone in iOS 26.5 \u2013 Apple Must"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5\/\">Apple confirms RCS messaging for iPhone in iOS 26.5 \u2013 Apple Must<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5\/\">https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 14:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.applemust.com\">www.applemust.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that RCS messaging will at last come to iPhones with iOS 26.5, which is currently in pre-release testing.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to arrive next week, it means iPhone users will be able to share end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with Android users, so long as their carriers\u00a0support\u00a0the standard.<\/p>\n<p>Apple began testing E2EE for RCS in the iOS 26.4 beta, allowing encrypted messages between Apple and Android devices, but this was deferred to the current iteration.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has said of this move: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnd-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to the RCS Universal Profile published by the GSMA.\u00a0We will add support\u00a0for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS\u00a0in future software updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s adoption of RCS is a major shift that will \u201cturbo-charge\u201d adoption, bringing it to billions of users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can follow me on social media! Join me on\u00a0BlueSky, \u00a0LinkedIn, and\u00a0Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple confirms RCS messaging for iPhone in iOS 26.5 \u2013 Apple Must https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apple-confirms-rcs-messaging-for-iphone-in-ios-26-5\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Apple-WWDC24-iOS-18-iPhone-15-Pro-3-up-240610.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77,57],"class_list":["post-239013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239015,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239013\/revisions\/239015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}