Some US carriers have enabled RCS support for their iPhone users.
With iOS 18, Apple is finally bringing the RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol to the iPhone and it looks like support has already been enabled by some US carriers.
Late last year, Apple decided to embrace RCS, something Google has been pestering it to do to improve the messaging experience between iOS and Android users. Without RCS support, texting between iOS and Android users is broken as it relies on SMS. As a result, photos and videos appear blurry, messages are sometimes shortened, and messages are not end-to-end encrypted.
All of this will soon be in the past as Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that it would bring support for RCS to the iPhone.
