Apple's iPhones finally have RCS, but it's not available to iPhone owners on Google Fi. Now, Google has revealed the reason for this.

With the launch of iOS 18, iPhone users are finally able to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. But beyond Apple's support of RCS, each carrier needs to activate the capability -- and for now, many carriers have yet to jump on the bandwagon.

End-to-end encryption for cross-platform RCS chats appears to be in the pipeline. GSMA is working to introduce interoperable encryption for RCS chats to ensure secure messaging between Android and iOS users.

Apple resisted jumping on the RCS bandwagon for the longest time, but after a lot of pressure from industry peers and users, RCS messaging is now part of the new iOS 18 update. Th

Apple rolled out iOS 18 to all supported iPhone models earlier this week. While the iOS 18 does bring a host of new features to the iPhones, it also brings support for RCS or Rich Communication Services to Apple's smartphones,

RCS messaging is finally coming to iPhones via iOS 18. But not every carrier currently supports it. Here's how to find out if yours does.

While Apple has adopted RCS with iOS 18, Google is already working towards RCS encryption between Android and iPhone.