What Happened: As of last week, Google Messages displayed a crossed-out lock icon in Android-iPhone RCS conversations, signifying the absence of E2EE. This was due to Google’s unique E2EE ...

RCS messages will display a lock icon beside the delivery status to indicate the message is a part of an encrypted conversation. Instead of the Sending status, outbound messages will feature a ...

When a message will be encrypted, the send button will have a lock icon on it — that’ll be important to keep an eye out for, as many people you text may not have RCS, or may not be using messages.

Google Messages could soon allow users to set up custom icons for RCS group chats. We’ve manually enabled the feature in the latest Messages beta release to give you an early look.

In addition to custom icon support, Google has confirmed that the messaging app will receive two more useful improvements we spotted earlier this year: notification snoozing and RCS tags for ...

Folks over at Android Authority were able to manually enable the feature in Google Messages beta release (version 20250218_01_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic), highlighting what custom RCS group chat ...

The icons are small, so you’ll need to look closely to see if the other party read the message or not. Note: You’ll need to be sending an RCS message for read receipts to become available.