Like all iPhone users, I have my blue friends and my green friends.
For far too long, the green friends have been isolated to a less viable texting protocol.
Starting today, thereign of SMS terror is over.
There’s still some issues how messages occasionally revert to SMS, though on the whole it’s a positive change for text your green bubble friends.© Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
WithiOS 18, Apple hasreluctantlycome to the side ofRCS communications.
Its been too long.
The scars run deep, but we now have to enter a time of healing.
The difference now is that your friends and you will see read receipts.
you might enable these receipts for each individual contact as well.
There will be growing pains.
But the effort is so worth it.
The little wiggling ellipses typing notification tells my friends I care enough about them to text back.
There are read receipts as well.
Then again, we usually use Facebook Messenger for that.
The version of RCS Apple is using is not encrypted, unlike iMessage.
For that, you should try WhatsApp or Signalthe latter if you value privacy above all else.
But sometimes, you just need your basic texting app to work.
The CEOs response is indicative of the contempt the company has shown to users andregulators.
The U.S.DOJ complained thatnon-iPhone users experience exclusion and blame due to the green bubble drama in its ongoingantitrust lawsuit.
Apple made the RCS announcement at its lastWWDC eventwith a single sentence statement after talking up iOS 18 improvements.
As should be clear by now, youll still have a better time texting other iPhone users on Messages.
Android users will receive a [person] reacted [emoji] message for Tapback responses.
iPhone users can now schedule messages for later times and send larger-size images with less compression.
Theres also the option to send SMS messages over satellite if youre using an iPhone 14 or later.
We cant linger on the issue anymore.
This is the new status quo, and texters will just have to acknowledge the distinction between gear ecosystems.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
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