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RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare
iMessage is still better, but at least you can send photos now!
At WWDC a few weeks ago, Apple talked a lot about homescreen customization, improvements to Siri, a revamped Photos app, and more. The company seems to have added support for RCS, a more modern and powerful messaging protocol that Google and others have adopted on Android, only as a begrudging gesture to regulators — it only mentioned the feature in passing, at the very end of its iOS announcements. In iOS 18, you can now send any emoji as a Tapback, which works fine between iPhones but now prompts that annoying “David reacted 🍝 to ‘What do you want for dinner tonight’” text in Google Messages.
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