How about scheduled messages to Android users? Will that be supported in iOS 19 or are we talking iOS 20 🤦♂️ ?
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iOS 19 to Improve Texting With Android Users in Five Ways
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People could end it by switching to either WhatsApp or telegram. But I guess it’s easier to blame Apple over something that is really basic human nature.
This is really good news… I’m impressed with Apple about this. Let’s see how long it takes them… I hate having to convince people to use 3rd party apps, explain security, encryption etc, especially because most people don’t care lol
Screw all this stuff - how about just WAY better interpretation of a user's typing to 'know' the words they mistype. Especially words that I mistype on an occasional but regular basis. And/ Or way better voice dictation accuracy.
I know that Android does better at voice dictation. No idea about the typing-interpretation.
I know that Android does better at voice dictation. No idea about the typing-interpretation.
Hopefully these features arrive on day one of iOS 19. Carriers should also support it. Still waiting for the basic RCS support from my carrier here in India.
This would be pretty nice with Android users.... or if you want to switch and have a lot of friends on iPhones still. RCS even goes over wifi which is nice too.
That’s nice but first my operator needs to support RCS on iPhone…
Wish Vodafone would get their act together they are the only one of 4 main networks that don’t support it!
No one outside the us even cares about the colour of the message bubbles lol
Wish Vodafone would get their act together they are the only one of 4 main networks that don’t support it!
No one outside the us even cares about the colour of the message bubbles lol
Or they could really double down: if it’s iMessage let you change it to any color, and for RCS/SMS just make it all grey 😆
Truly though, being able to customize the colors is something I’ve always wanted. I don’t care if they choose the palette and give us like 8-16 choices or something to keep it classy and on-brand, I just really don’t like the boring shades of blue and green they use.
But yeah with the ability to change the home screen icons to any rgb value, we should be able to match the messaging app, and honestly the whole UI, replacing that generic blue with a color of your choice universally
I don’t understand why to wait until iOS 19 instead of adopting the new 3.0 profile on upcoming iOS 18 updates
And what if your text an iOS user that has iMessage turned off, as that would just show as an SMS
I do as a UK person, I don’t like WhatsApp but do have it installed if I need to use it.
So it won't display anymore the now-familiar alert "this message was sent by a poor person who can't even afford an iPhone".
Good to know.
Good to know.
My close neighbors use Android, and honestly, I’ve never noticed any issues with messaging between Android and iPhone. What does stand out to me, though, is just how many more people are using Android now. For a while, iPhone seemed to dominate, but over the past five years, I’ve noticed a shift back toward Android.
Apple this week said that it plans to add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to the Messages app in future iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS software updates, and that news actually has some additional implications.
As noted by 9to5Mac's Michael Burkhardt, Apple has indirectly confirmed that it will be adopting the RCS Universal Profile 3.0 specification, which includes not only end-to-end encryption, but also several other iMessage-like enhancements that were originally introduced in version 2.7 of the specification. iOS 18 supports RCS Universal Profile 2.4.
Here are five new capabilities to expect for RCS conversations:
iMessage conversations with blue bubbles have supported end-to-end encryption by default since iOS 5. In addition, iMessage has supported in-line replies since iOS 14, while the options to edit and unsend iMessages were introduced with iOS 16.
- End-to-end encryption, which will prevent Apple and any other third party from being able to read messages and attachments while they are being sent between devices, as has always been the case with iMessage
- In-line replies
- Edit messages
- Unsend messages
- Full-fledged Tapback support for RCS messages, ensuring they always work
Apple has not indicated which iOS version will upgrade RCS, but iOS 19 or a follow-up update like iOS 19.1 or iOS 19.2 seems like a safe bet.
Article Link: iOS 19 to Improve Texting With Android Users in Five Ways
WhatsApp and you don't need all this mess.
Yes, Apple adopted an older version of RCS when they finally did.
Maybe he is so rich he doesn't need to show his status with a phone.
The same for me with iuser... I have a friends with imessage that continued to send me sms instead of using WhatsApp. I decided to ignore sms because I was tired of his approach blue vs green but after he was forced to switch to WhatsApp by his friends circle because he was the only one without WhatsApp. Now he is a regular user (and happy) of the multicolor world.
The key is that iMessage uses on device keys. Someone else holds the keys in WhatsApp etc. So the UK and three letter agencies love them.
Canada.
It's apparently pretty common in Norway, too, at least according to an high school exchange student we hosted from there.
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You have to trust the application and the one making and providing the application. End to end encryption means nothing if data is being mined at the endpoints.
Very popular in Sweden. I use iMessage with most people, Signal with some and SMS with a few select people who try to make me install Facebook messenger which is for whatever reason way more popular than WhatsApp with the people I know.
No Swedish Carrier have RCS support yet and while some say they are working on it others say they haven’t made a decision yet. Would love RCS 3.0 to be implemented. Maybe people wouldn’t leave me out of group chats anymore because I don’t use Facebook Messenger and keep them on RCS instead.