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

iOS 26.5 will encrypt RCS text messages between iOS and Android. The encryption supports the iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. The update brings new Pride wallpaper to iPhone and Apple Watch. iPhone owners ...
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iPhone users may finally be able to send encrypted texts to Android friends with iOS 26

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...