Wow, #Apple announced it plans to add support for #RCS “later next year."

Note that encryption is *not* built into the core RCS standard. The only messaging apps that do support RCS + encryption do so via an extension, and Apple does not plan to support these extensions.

Instead, it apparently wants to work with the standards body to add encryption to the core standard. A move I wager has a lot of pushback from data brokers and other jerks who profit from that data.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2141884/iphone-imessage-rcs-support-later-in-2024.html