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Jamie Richards

6 ways iOS 18 improves messaging between iPhone and Android – and 3 ways it doesn’t

An iPhone on a green and blue background showing RCS messages.

The divide between Apple’s iMessage and the Google Messages app has been the source of much debate ever since iMessage launched in 2011.

iOS 18 – which launched on September 16 and will ship with the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max – brings the universal Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol to the iPhone for the first time. 

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