Yesterday, Apple announced that it will be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0 in “future software updates.” While this does have one large benefit of bringing end-to-end encryption to iPhone usersusing RCS, it has a number of other benefits that aren’t yet being mentioned.
iOS 18 uses a dated version of RCS
When Apple introduced RCS messaging to iPhone as part of iOS 18, it supported version 2.4. This still introduced a number of quality of life improvements for texting Android users, such as higher quality images, read receipts, and more – but it still missed out on a lot.
Källa: Apple will introduce a number of texting upgrades in iOS 19, here’s what’s coming – 9to5Mac