Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 18 Beta 2 with help for Rich Communication Services (in the US). The experience of operating Google Messages to talk to someone with an iPhone over RCS is accessible straightforward, though it’s clearly the foremost take.
Google Messages will mark that the talk is not end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) with a lock icon that characterized a slash. “Message Details” will note the “Type” as “Rich Communication Service Message” instead of “End-to-End Encrypted Rich Communication Service command.”
Google provides its own E2EE for 1:1 and group conversations for Messages on Android. Apple wishes encryption to be added to the RCS Universal Profile averaged, so Google will presumably move to whatever the company group lands on in the fortune.
Meanwhile, going to a debate’s Details page unveils some missing settings. When talking to somebody with an iPhone, there’s no “Only send SMS & MMS messages” on/off toggle for that danger. There’s also no card description E2EE status in most matters (unless they switched SIMs from Android to iOS and it was previously operating).
In group debates, you can change the title and have that sync to all partners, while there’s also “Leave group.”
Ahead of the iOS 18 release in the drop, Google will presumably update Messages to name these inconsistencies. Otherwise, the experience is perfeci straightforward, and should have really occurred much sooner.