If your texts are falling back to SMS, try these steps to ensure that Apple's Messages app is properly functioning.

Hey, iPhone users! If you’ve updated to iOS 18, you may have seen something called “RCS” in your Messages settings and ...

RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Android Users Feel Less Archaic. Here's How. ... There's apparently nothing worse to an iMessage user than an Android user who crashes their precious blue-bubble party.

RCS isn’t a one-to-one iMessage clone, and Apple would very much still like you to keep using iMessage. But having RCS on the iPhone means the iMessage stranglehold will be easier to escape from.

RCS brings many iMessage-style features to cross-platform messaging between iPhone and Android devices. This includes things like read receipts, typing indicators, high-quality images and videos ...

Unlike RCS, iMessage is a proprietary messaging protocol controlled exclusively by Apple and available (barring some occasional, unofficial workarounds) only on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac ...

But even if Apple will bring RCS support to iMessage, there’s no telling when it’ll happen. iMessage continues to be a massive competitive advantage for the iPhone.

The difference would be that iPhone-Android texting would take on the iMessage features mentioned above. As for differences, one major distinction between iMessage and RCS is exclusivity.

We use an amalgam of iPhone apps that include iMessage and WhatsApp. But there are other apps that we rely on, as well, depending on age, context, and relationships. It’s not about RCS either ...

Apple's iMessage is getting a major overhaul later this year with iOS 16, but most of these new features, like unsending a message or editing a text, will only work if the person you are texting ...