News Summary

• Apple has long been reluctant to support the Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging standard on its devices because RCS is not encrypted by default.
• Now, Apple and Google have announced that they have brought end-to-end encryption to cross-platform RCS, making your text messages a whole lot more secure.
• You don’t need to flip any switches or activate any settings, it just works out of the box to keep your texts private between you and the recipient.
• However, there is a significant catch to the latest announcement.