As a part of today's wave of Android announcements, Google shared that it had made huge progress in the iPhone-to-Android switching space. Google said that they worked with Apple (!) to completely overhaul the transfer process from an iPhone to an Android device. This overhaul will allow for...

Apple is finally bringing end-to-end encryption for messages between iPhones and Androids. This move comes nearly two years after Apple added RCS support to iOS. And Google may be the happiest about it. Here are the details.

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is officially available, Apple confirmed today. Support is included in iOS 26.5, which is now available to everyone. End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging is available in a beta capacity, even though it is in the launch version of iOS 26.5.