Everyone changes for Android.
At one point this year, Google and Apple will both publish updates to their messaging applications that will completely change the landscape of texts. This is an upgrade that has been expected for many years, and will be the first time that WhatsApp has offered real competition for secure and multiplatform messaging between Androids and iPhones without any attached channel.
There are of course other exaggerated messengers, including Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Signal. But they have all these strings. Meta’s Metadata Overeach, the lack of end -to -end, Telegram end -to -end and the limited signal installation base.
What missed in space is messaging in secure stock. The seminal upgrade of RCS was announced by the mobile standards sector Gsma Last month, and Google and Apple confirmed that they would update their messaging applications to the new standard, completely encrypting texts between operating systems for the first time.
This comes in the wake of Salt Typhoon, which saw Chinese pirates Maraud through American networks flying data and content, exposing safety holes in text messaging and encouraging the FBI to warn Americans to stop sending SMS.
Google The latest update of its message application is the next step towards alignment with Imessage, with a much more aligned user experience, regardless of the type of mobile phone you have chosen. As soon as RCS is upgraded, he becomes a player in the secure messaging space. And now, as spotted by Android authorityGoogle facilitates “see which ones of your contacts use RC”.
RCS labeling on Android – Tags and colors.
It will be critical because I know that all my messapp and signal messages are secure – which applies to each of my contacts in the application. The same goes for the signal and even Facebook Messenger. Above all, this is not true for Telegram and it is not yet true for RC.
Android authority Apk an apk of pre-liberation messages to find Google “Prepare new RCS labels for contacts”, marking each name. More critical, “Messages has also refined the user interface of the contact list to differentiate RCS compatible users by color.”
This will remove the work of assuming the start of a conversation with contact. Currently, you have “no indication to know if a conversation that you hope to start would use RCS or SMS”. It will change. And perhaps the most important setting of everyone: “The functionality works even to identify iPhone users who have activated RCS messaging.”
Regarding colors, it is not as simple as the differentiation of blue / green bubble bubble which has become a key element of the iMessage offer. Instead, “the names of RCS users are tinged using materials you accele, while SMS contacts only appear in ordinary white.”
It is a pre-liberation and we therefore do not know when it appears. Since we do not yet have a chronology on complete RCS encryption, it is less important than it will become. I do not recommend using RCS on WhatsApp or other secure messages now, but that will change when it is upgraded. I hope it did in time for iOS 19 in the fall.
