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iPhone users may finally be able to send encrypted texts to Android friends with iOS 26


The ability to encrypt texts between iPhones and Android devices may be coming soon.

With RCS enabled, texts from iPhone owners to Android users can include larger file attachments, higher-quality photos and videos, audio messages, read receipts, more types of emoji, and smoother group chats. Earlier this year, Apple revealed that it would add support for encrypted RCS messages in future updates to iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and WatchOS. By adding other security features such as SIM-based authentication, the end-to-end encryption will help keep RCS messages private, protecting people from scams, fraud, and other threats, the GSMA said at the time.

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