Text Messages Between iPhone and Android Are Finally Getting More Secure
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Summary
Technology giants usually favour their own customers with the most secure messaging benefits, but this is set to change as Apple has announced it will soon add end-to-end encryption for cross-platform messaging.
This means that messages sent between Apple and Android devices will be encrypted, making the content “remain confidential and secure as they travel between clients”, according to the Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GMSA).
Apple plans to apply end-to-end encryption to RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging, a service similar to iMessage, which has supported end-to-end encryption since its inception.
The company plans to incorporate end-to-end encryption in “future software updates” for several of its operating systems.
This move indicates an industry-wide push to standardise end-to-end encryption as a precondition for RCS messaging.
