Updated on May 12 as Apple’s new messaging update goes live. It’s finally here — almost. Almost 18-months after the FBI ...

Samsung is retiring Samsung Messages after 17 years, pushing Galaxy users to Google Messages as encrypted RCS texting expands ...

Here are some of the new features iOS 26.5 brings to your iPhone. End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on your device. The iOS ...

In recent developments, six prominent messaging apps have decided to roll back their end-to-end encryption (E2EE) defaults, sparking significant debate and concern among users and cybersecurity ...

If you downloaded iOS 26.5, your device can now access the secure messaging protocol as long as your carrier supports it.

RCS is the modern upgrade to SMS and MMS, bringing better photos, read receipts, typing indicators, group chats, and growing iPhone-Android support in 2026.

Encryption offers an illusion of security. It feeds the notion that even governments, advertisers, or the platform would not be privy to the conversations. In many technical ways, that’s true. However ...

iOS 26.5’s RC is available now, along with official release notes, and with them Apple has confirmed that the update will bring a key RCS upgrade to the Messages app. Messages app to support RCS ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes. Apple says ...

Rather than launching a sleek, worthwhile encrypted messaging app, Musk dropped a junky, insular extension of his social media platform. One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing ...