{"id":243808,"date":"2026-05-11T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/apple-brings-encrypted-rcs-chats-to-iphone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:05:07","slug":"apple-brings-encrypted-rcs-chats-to-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/apple-brings-encrypted-rcs-chats-to-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928141\/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android\">Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928141\/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928141\/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 13:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theverge.com\">www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 26.5, which was released on Monday, Apple added support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in beta, meaning that Apple and Google can\u2019t see your messages while they\u2019re sent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">With iOS 26.5, you\u2019ll see a lock icon and a small \u201cEncrypted\u201d message at the top of the chat to note when you\u2019re having an encrypted conversation with an Android user and are on a carrier that supports the feature. Apple says that encryption will be on by default and \u201cwill be automatically enabled over time for new and existing RCS conversations.\u201d Android users will also need to be using the newest version of Google Messages. Apple started testing encrypted RCS chats with Android users earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">iOS 26.5 also includes new wallpapers and the addition of ads in Maps. \u201cMaps may show local ads based on your approximate location, current search terms, or view of the map while you search,\u201d according to a pop-up shown I saw when I opened Maps with the update installed. Apple says advertising information \u201cis not linked to your Apple account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In addition to iOS 26.5, Apple released iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928141\/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928141\/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android Publish Date: 2026-05-11 13:57:00 Source Domain: www.theverge.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Apple-RCS-messaging-beta_quick-read-16x9.jpg.medium_2x.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C3.4613147178592%2C100%2C93.077370564282&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77],"class_list":["post-243808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243808"}],"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=243808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243810,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243808\/revisions\/243810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}