Apple will introduce these key Messages app upgrades very soon, here’s what they are<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Last year,
Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the time, iOS 18 was still the latest version of iOS – thus implying that the upgrade would come as part of the next round of software – iOS 26.</p>
<p>So far, end-to-end encryption is yet to ship. That’s not the only thing though. The upgrade to end-to-end encryption would’ve also necessitated
other major upgrades to the RCS protocol, and as of iOS 26.3 RC, it’s all still missing.</p>
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Apple will introduce these key Messages app upgrades very soon, here’s what they are
