Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

While iOS features often leak ahead of their official launch, information about them rarely comes from hardware assembly ...

Apple notes that the encrypted messages are just a test and aren't available for all devices, carriers, or regions yet.

Apple testing RCS Android iPhone encryption in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. Secure cross-platform texting is coming, but not shipping ...

Update February 23: The second beta of iOS 26.4 is out now for developers. It expands the testing environment for RCS encryption to include iPhone-to-Android messages.

Apple added RCS support to iPhone with iOS 18.1, enabling richer cross-platform messaging between iPhone and Android users. This ...

iOS 26 isn't quite ready to launch yet, but we're far enough along in the testing process that Apple is seeding the update out to millions of public beta testers today. ‌iOS 26‌ is also now refined ...

Elon Musk’s company xAI is reportedly testing a new standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot. It’s a separate version of Grok that doesn’t require an account on X, the platform formerly known as ...