Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/04/apple-confirms-ios-26-5-messages-app-adds-rcs-end-to-end-encryption/

by latchkey • 3 months ago

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ggm• 3 months ago

If this means first class e2e experience for users in Android talking to their peers in Apple, so much the better.

I mourn the loss of a single cohesive framework to message people in. I hate having to live in 4 or more app specific spaces. Using third party systems like beeper means breaching your key security to have them intermediate.

latchkey• 3 months ago

agreed. i even paid for beeper when they first started and the whole experience was so awful that i just deleted it and never went back.

stuaxo• 3 months ago

Does RCS do proper E2EE?

I remember some chatter about RCS not being as secure when Android started bringing it in.

Schiendelman• 3 months ago

It wasn't. Apple contributed to the standard to improve it!

hulitu• 3 months ago

Does RCS do proper E2EE?

Yes, only you, your conversation partner and Apple have the key.

Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

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