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| Google is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS group chats |
Google said on Friday that it has begun testing group chat encryption based on RCs in its messages.
In a blog post celebrating the birth of SMS, the US tech giant explained that in celebration of the birth of SMS, testing of new encryption features was made available to a limited group of users participating in its public beta program. weeks. .
Today's announcement comes after several Reddit users noticed in October that Google was testing encryption in group messages. It now appears that the test is official.
Google, which also owns the Android operating system that dominates the global smartphone market, began testing RCS personal conversation encryption in 2020 and officially rolled out the functionality to all messaging users in June last year.
Google has been looking for years to get smartphone makers and telecom operators to adopt RCS technology, which is bigger than SMS because it allows photo and video sharing, and shows writing and reading instructions among other functions. Apps like MITA's WhatsApp.
Google has been trying to adopt technology from Apple into its Messages app for some time, allowing Android users to communicate with iPhone users.
So far, Apple doesn't seem to have responded to Google's bid, which encouraged the latter to write directly to Apple in today's news, saying, "RCS is currently standard across all but major phone makers and phone makers -- phone makers obtained by rejecting Apple Apple The adoption of rich email services and the continued reliance on iPhone users for text messages to communicate with Android phones, don't expect more.
It should be noted that Google is trying to bridge the user experience gap between Android and iOS systems by adding features such as: b. Support for comments on iPhone messages.