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TL;DR
- A brand new official Google Messages webpage affirms that iPhone RCS assist is coming within the fall.
- Initially, Apple solely dedicated to 2024, so it is a extra particular timeframe.
- Given the timing, it’s possible we’d see this land in tandem with the iPhone 16 collection.
Late final 12 months, Apple shocked the whole tech world by saying it could assist wealthy communication companies (RCS) inside iMessage in some unspecified time in the future in 2024. The corporate has been mum on any additional particulars since that announcement, however we lastly have a small however helpful replace from a special supply: Google.
On a brand new webpage devoted to Google Messages (first noticed by 9to5Google), the corporate divulges that RCS messaging assist for iPhones is coming “within the fall of 2024.” This is a little more particular than simply “subsequent 12 months,” which is all Apple mentioned on the time of its preliminary announcement.
You possibly can see all the things Google has to say about iPhone RCS assist within the screenshot under:
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On condition that fall is crucial time of the 12 months for Apple, because of the launch of iPhones in September, it’s not out of the realm of chance to count on RCS assist in iMessage to debut with or across the launch of the iPhone 16 collection. Nonetheless, it’s doable that testing for RCS assist might start sooner than that, presumably with the launch of early betas of iOS 18, which we count on to land in June at WWDC 2024.
Regardless, in the event you had been hoping your iPhone-using family and friends would have RCS within the first half of this 12 months, this replace from Google squashes that hope. Nonetheless, you may relaxation assured that by this time in 2025, the movies you textual content to your iPhone peeps can have greater than 20 pixels in them.
