Since last year, Google has promoted its RCS functionality, which has been one of its popular applications, Google Message, for many years. Due to its high promotion and continued development, Apple has also been influenced and announced that it will provide Google Message-like RCS messaging functionality for its built-in message application with iOS 18.
iPhone Brings RCS Messaging Support in iMessages
According to the reports, several new features are arriving in iPhone messages that are inspired by Google Messages, such as emoji reactions for messages, which provide emojis like thumbs, hearts up and down, haha, exclamation marks, and question marks. Along with this, it will also provide the simple ability to schedule messages.
How RCS could be beneficial for Apple users
As the name suggests, RCS stands for Rich Communication Service, which ensures the establishment of a strong network between devices through the internet and brings an advantage to instant messaging. This is just like other social media applications such as WhatsApp, which, with the latest development, users can now talk with the image with the same experience, and due to the RCS connectivity, it may also open the door to connecting with non-iPhone users as well.
When is it available for iPhones?
Apple introduced the RCS function during the WWDC 2024 event, where it also revealed several features that are arriving through iOS 18, indicating that you will soon get to access the latest feature in the next couple of months with a major software update on the iPhone. If you want early access, then you can also check out enrolling in the iOS 18 development preview. But before enrolling in the developer preview, keep in mind that you will get some bugs and performance fluctuations during testing.
