RCS Revealed: Next-Level Messaging on iPhone Explained!

RCS is coming to iPhone this fall, revolutionizing messaging as we know it. In this video, I explain how RCS (Rich Communication Service) upgrades traditional SMS with features like high-resolution media sharing, typing indicators, read receipts, and improved group chats. Discover how RCS compares to iMessage and what to expect when it launches with iOS 18. Subscribe for the latest updates on iOS 18 and all its new features!

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Chapters ➡
0:00 Intro
0:11 What is RCS?
2:04 Magic Lasso
3:19 RCS Features
4:05 Confirmed RCS Features in iOS 18
4:56 When will RCS Arrive?
5:29 RCS Supported Devices

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[Pittsburgh]

Apple should make the RCS chat bubbles a different shade of green so users can differentiate from an SMS thread

[jerrywu]

I really hope for the sake of everyone that uses messages that Apple will eventually make a different shade of green for RCS...because it's going to be very confusing if it looks exactly the same as SMS

[OT_Tips]

My system ad blocker Blocked a section of this video starting at 2:04 and skipped to 3:15 😮. Was it an ad?

[CatServant]

I’m a member of a group chat my extended family uses for communicating about our annual reunions. All group members are on iPhones. I have one niece who’s on Android and we can’t add her because SMS contacts cannot be added after the group has been created. We’d have to recreate the group from scratch to add her.

[JC-bdmy]

So, really... nothing's going to change on the iPhone end. RCS support is just going to ensure that little things like read-receipts and "typing now" bubbles appear in cross-platform messages (i.e. the green bubble conversations). In other words, it allows Android users to see more of the things that iPhone users are able to see in blue bubble conversations. Though I'm going to guess that Apple is going to continually add more functionality and little extra things for blue bubble conversations that won't be available on green bubble conversations just to stay one step ahead of the competition. I do hope that Apple's adoption of RCS will include end to end encryption of green bubble conversations, though. That would be really great.

[MobileDecay]

Imagine thinking you're better than someone because you have an outdated messaging service. 🤣

[_ohnojono]

Andrew did you put on a beauty filter for this video? Your shirt is in perfect focus but your face look blurry 😬

[DonJane-ngzl]

So messages on RCS are no longer encrypted like MMS

[bob]

Keep apple blue and android green. I like knowing who’s using those crappy android phones.

It’s become a sales advantage at this point.

[provasish]

Can't find RCS on my xr, I'm on the latest beta

[dustyroads]

In the world I live in (Vermont) cell service sucks so most of the time the only connection is just plain cellular. No data so I’m not that excited about RCS. I just hope in they’re grand scheme of making things better they keep good old SMS because basically that’s all I have for communications 90 % of the time.

[algis]

RCS is network supported. KPN in Nederland doesn't support that.

[ChaosWave]

just under 6 min vid with a over 1 min add for a add block lmao

[joshuamethven]

*leaves out all the Apple v Europe reasons that this is happening lol.
Thank you Europe.. my friends are now brought into the modern age 😅

[CharCree]

I live in Canada and I have iPhone. It doesn’t work in Canada just in the US it works I wish it work in Canada

[henrynguyen]

Thank you for the video. Your face is generally blur throughout the video. Maybe you need to set focus on your face or change setting in aperture. It will make your video is more pleasant to watch.

[ericprynn]

I thought RCS was so android phones could have a half decent messaging. I don’t understand what benefits it gives to iPhone users. Simply don’t have any android friends.

[TransferPoint]

5:38 "iPhone _eks_ R"? It's pronounced "ten R."

[rgmjr]

Great and informative video. Just a comment on the audio. There’s a hum and the audio is a bit teeny and… I’m using headphones and on max volume. 😬

And your face is out of focus a bit.

[aleksandarp]

Still calling it Jraphic Interchange Format I see