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Regardless of whether you’re sporting a new iPhone 18 Pro or a shiny Pixel 11 Pro, you can choose to send messages over RCS.

It's still not quite ready to go, but Google Messages is showing further evidence of development work towards supporting RCS video calls.

Some Android users are reporting that Google Messages is refusing to send media files to other Android phones when RCS is enabled.

Galaxy users report Google Messages RCS error 3100 after changing phones or carriers. Learn Google’s recommended steps and why they may not work. Hand holding a ...

Google Messages' latest beta seems to remove the per-contact RCS toggle. There will reportedly be only an option to turn RCS ...

When you tap the “Start chat” button in the bottom-right corner, you’ll now land on a screen called “New chat.” Before, it was called “New conversation.” The new name matches Google’s RCS branding ...

Back in March, cross-platform end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS was announced, and Google Messages is beginning to test the new Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol. Universal Profile 3.0 adds ...

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For businesses and other enterprise environments, Google Messages today announced Android RCS Archival on Pixel phones. Some businesses, governments, and other organizations need to archive messages ...

Currently, if you use Google Messages and want to make a video call, you can do so with select recipients, but it pushes you to Google Meet and is not really a native video calling experience. While ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google's been a big proponent of RCS, the standard that modernizes text messaging with features like high-quality media, typing ...