Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

Does RCS do proper E2EE?

I remember some chatter about RCS not being as secure when Android started bringing it in.

If this means first class e2e experience for users in Android talking to their peers in Apple, so much the better.

I mourn the loss of a single cohesive framework to message people in. I hate having to live in 4 or more app specific spaces. Using third party systems like beeper means breaching your key security to have them intermediate.

	▲	latchkey 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		agreed. i even paid for beeper when they first started and the whole experience was so awful that i just deleted it and never went back.