Happy Thanksgiving: iPhone users are suddenly embracing RCS

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• Many Android users anecdotally report that a lot more of their iPhone contacts have recently begun using RCS to message.
• Apple highlighted the new iOS 18.1.1 security update as a recommended update and could have pushed it out to more users to update.
• This possibly forced update to iOS 18.1.1 ultimately means a better messaging experience between iPhone and Android users.

RCS is the big revolution that promises to bring down the barriers between green and blue bubbles, but it still has some ways to go before achieving that purpose. Even though Apple took the step to include RCS support on iPhones with the iOS 18 update, there are still a few significant hurdles for RCS adoption on iPhones. However, users are noticing an uptick in iPhone users jumping onto the RCS bandwagon, so there’s definitely some improvement on the way.

Even though iPhones now support RCS, Apple doesn’t highlight this to users like it naturally does with its own services. In fact, you need to align a few things before you can start using RCS on an iPhone. For one, your carrier needs to support RCS, which, thankfully, the three major carriers in the US and many of the smaller ones do. Next, users need to update to iOS 18, the version that flips the switch for RCS support.




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