Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18

Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, and chaos ensues.

No, they don't. Messages from Android phones show up as grey bubbles.

Messages sent TO Android phones show up as green bubbles.

You can literally see it in the screenshot in the article.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.

Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, and chaos ensues.

RCS offers typing indicators and read receipts, allows you to send longer messages, and supports higher-quality images and videos.

It’s become the standard messaging protocol on Android phones as US wireless carriers fully adopted it over the past five years, but Apple has been stubbornly withholding support.

Pressure campaigns from Google and Samsung to adopt RCS probably aren’t what pushed Apple past the tipping point.

The company announced in November — seemingly out of the blue — that it would add RCS support in the upcoming year.

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