With the second beta of iOS 18 that got here out yesterday, Apple added an RCS toggle, however RCS messaging was not working at the moment. ‌RCS‌ help seems to now be rolling out, based mostly on studies from ‌iOS 18‌ customers.


Some testers who’ve ‌iOS 18‌ put in have confirmed that they can ship ‌RCS‌ messages to Android customers, with ‌RCS‌ options obtainable. Texts which are RCS-based as a substitute of SMS/MMS-based are denoted with an ‌RCS‌ label.

‌RCS‌, or Wealthy Communication Companies, permits iPhone and Android customers to change increased high quality images and movies, audio messages, and bigger file sizes. Options like learn receipts and real-time typing indicators are supported too, with a full record of what is new obtainable beneath.

  • Assist for increased decision images and movies.
  • Assist for bigger file sizes and file sharing.
  • Audio messages.
  • Cross-platform emoji reactions.
  • Actual-time typing indicators.
  • Learn receipts.
  • Capability to ship messages over mobile or Wi-Fi (SMS is mobile solely). There isn’t any price to ship an ‌RCS‌ message over Wi-Fi.
  • Improved group chats.

‌RCS‌ messages might be enabled within the Messages part of the Settings app, and are toggled on by default. On the present time, ‌RCS‌ messaging is barely obtainable to these in the USA who’ve a provider that helps ‌RCS‌. T-Cellular, AT&T, and Verizon customers operating ‌iOS 18‌ ought to have the ‌RCS‌ toggle obtainable, however these with MVNOs and smaller carriers will be unable to make use of the function but.

Not all ‌iOS 18‌ customers with T-Cellular, AT&T, and Verizon are seeing ‌RCS‌ enabled, so it seems that help continues to be rolling out.

‌iOS 18‌ is out there in a beta capability proper now, and it’s restricted to builders. ‌RCS‌ will probably be obtainable to all ‌iOS 18‌ customers when the software program launches to the general public this fall.

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