4mo ago

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

www.theverge.com

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4mo ago

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

www.theverge.com /news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android

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4mo ago

Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

www.theverge.com /news/629620/apple-iphone-e2ee-encryption-rcs-messaging-android

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Would be nice if there could be an implementation by someone else than apple or google
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RCS for apple sucks ass though. I use android and my wife used apple. Her Rcs is so sporadic in working it's almost funny.
- Read receipts have yet to work. I'm not sure if they're off by default or it's a bug in the RCS implementation.
  
  Read receipts have yet to work.
  Interesting, I intentionally left RCS off on my iPhone because I didn’t know if read-receipts were on or not.
  The read receipts setting use to be for iMessage only and Apple’s documentation for RCS made it seem like it was always on.
Now if only my carrier will support RCS sometime soon 🙃 I convinced a bunch of my friends to upgrade iOS with the promise of better group texts but it's all for nought as I'm still left out of group chats.
RSN^®
And LineageOS, MuerenaOS, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, iodèOS, so on and so fourth, will still be using unencrypted SMS because, say it with me,
RCS IS NOT AN OPEN STANDARD.
just force your friends to use signal. I literally stopped talking to the ones that wouldnt switch. My privacy is more important to me than going out for a beer, especially now.
Maybe I missed something but who even cares about RCS?
- Anyone still using "Text Messaging"?
  
  I don't know any person using sms for regular communication, everyone I know uses some kind of messenger app.
- I'd sooner ask "why do people care about messenger apps"? Like what? Why do we need 5 different programs to talk to people because everybody's on different platforms - none of which are even domestically owned by my country or really controlled at all by it.
  RCS is slightly closer to a step in the right direction, but the fact that Google is so deeply latched into it still gives me some concern.
  
  They don't need 5 programs, there are lots of messaging services that work across the major platforms that people use, I don't understand why we would want a new , "official" client made by google which locks out anyone they don't like (rooted devices, third parties) which doesn't even have the advantages of already existing options in terms of privacy, usability, and security.
  Also they'd need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.
- I certainly do. iOS users insist on SMS and SMS is awful. I gently sway those I can influence to modern messaging but that is not everyone.
  
  I guess so? I haven't met anyone who's using sms for that but apparently that's just regional.
- People who still need to receive or respond to SMS or MMS, for work or for stupid companies that still use it for 2fa.
  
  I doubt that those companies will switch to RCS unless they're forced to and I'd rather they switch to time based tokens generated on the client device instead.
- Americans.
  So yeah, nobody cares about SMS/RCS

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