When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The latest iPhone software introduced the biggest upgrade to iMessage in years. Here’s how to get the most out of it.

RCS messaging is now rolling out in beta through iOS 26.5, developed in collaboration with Google and the GSMA, the ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

Texts sent from an iPhone to an Android phone can now be end-to-end encrypted, the same protection that has always covered iMessages between two iPhones. The feature is on by default, and qualifying ...

The changes in Apple’s iOS 26.5 include end-to-end encryption for messages sent between iPhones and Android devices.

If you downloaded iOS 26.5, your device can now access the secure messaging protocol as long as your carrier supports it.

The beta feature for enterprise accounts allows Gmail users to simply toggle encryption for external emails. The beta feature for enterprise accounts allows Gmail users to simply toggle encryption for ...

Apple may be close to implementing encryption for RCS messages. The signs of this were reportedly discovered in iOS 26.3 Beta 2. This will finally enable encrypted messaging between Android and Apple ...

Your iPhone RCS chats with Android are encrypted in iOS 26.5: How to verify E2E is enabled ...

Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services (RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End ...

end-to-end encryption ensures that messages exchanged between supported iPhones and Android devices remain protected while being transmitted.