For years, I was a nuisance to anyone with an iPhone. While I proudly toted my Samsung Galaxy devices, my friends would deplore the havoc I'd wreak on any text or group chat by "turning everything ...

Five months ago, iOS 18 began rolling out, and that meant Android and iPhone users could finally text over RCS. Well, most of them. There's a hold up with several smaller carriers, and it seems ...

Now that day has arrived, you can finally use it on your iPhone, here’s how it works. Updated March 5, 2025: The latest iOS 18.4 beta adds RCS support for more carriers, including most of those ...

WWDC 2025 is just one week away, with Apple's opening keynote scheduled to begin on Monday, June 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

With iOS 18 officially launching this week, the iPhone operating system update is bringing a ton of new features including support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) in the Messages app.

It's basically what now powers the text messages that you send to people with your iPhone and other Apple devices when iMessage is unavailable. RCS is a replacement for SMS (Short Messaging ...

Now that the RCS rollout has gone completely public, there’s no more opting-in or flipping of toggles to be done. All you have to do is make sure that your iPhone is updated to iOS 18 ...

RCS chats typically include typing indicators, read receipts, emoji reactions, and more. For iPhone users, this new, somewhat hidden iMessage feature means the frustrations Apple has imposed on ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Apple confirmed iOS 18 will support RCS messaging on iPhone and then brought RCS ...

and this has been my favorite use case for RCS on my iPhone 16 Pro. Again, I take a lot of photos and videos of my daughter and her shenanigans. For sharing batches of media, I typically upload ...