Final November, hell froze over and Apple lastly caved and agreed to help RCS on iPhones, after many, a few years through which Google and others have been asking it to. RCS brings iMessage-like options to messages despatched in between any units that help it, no matter who makes them.
At the moment, Apple solely mentioned that RCS would arrive on iPhones “later subsequent yr”, so “later in 2024”, that’s. Right now Google has pinpointed a extra particular launch time-frame: “fall of 2024”. That sounds loads like a really sturdy trace at RCS making its debut in iOS 18, which might be introduced on June 10 however will solely be launched alongside the iPhone 16 household this fall.
After all Google hasn’t mentioned all of that, nevertheless it’s a fairly simple conclusion to leap to, particularly given how a rumor from January principally mentioned the identical factor. So now we have now a sort of affirmation, even when not from Apple itself – although that is most likely the perfect we will get.
The picture you possibly can see above is a screenshot from Google’s new devoted website introducing folks to its Messages app, which helps RCS after all. We won’t see the part within the screenshot for the time being, and we’re undecided why – possibly as a result of we’re visiting from a Home windows machine and never a Mac, or possibly as a result of Google pulled it. Both means, it does not matter for the reason that enterprising of us over at 9to5Mac caught it in time, and thus we introduced it to you courtesy of them.
Remaining notice – there’s nothing stopping Apple from persevering with to separate the bubble colours in its messaging app, with blue for iMessage (therefore, iPhones) and inexperienced for RCS. So we’d warning you in opposition to getting your hopes up that this example will change with the introduction of RCS on iPhones.
