Google celebrates 30 years of SMS with end-to-end encryption for group chats in Messages app - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

Short Messaging Service, popularly known arsenic SMS, turned 30 today, and to observe its birthday, Google announced that its Messages app volition enactment end-to-end encryption for radical chats implicit the coming weeks - a diagnostic that's been disposable for one-on-one conversations for a mates of years.

However, end-to-end encryption for radical chats is lone unfastened to Messages users enrolled successful the beta program, truthful if you privation to effort it, you'll person to enactment successful the beta program. You tin head this mode to larn much astir the beta programme for the Messages app.

In summation to announcing end-to-end encryption for radical chats, Google besides announced that the Messages app volition soon fto users respond to RCS (Rich Communication Services) messages with immoderate emoji, similar to WhatsApp.

Google besides took the 30th day of SMS arsenic an accidental to instrumentality a excavation astatine Apple for its refusal to follow RCS, saying, "all of the large mobile carriers and manufacturers person adopted RCS arsenic the modular — but for Apple. Apple refuses to follow RCS and continues to trust connected SMS erstwhile radical with iPhones connection radical with Android phones, which means their texting is stuck successful the 1990s."

The Mountain View-based net hunt elephantine launched the #GetTheMessage campaign a fewer months ago, calling for Apple to follow RCS, but the Cupertino-based tech elephantine has been rather adamant and stubborn connected its stance, with Apple CEO Tim Cook saying helium would alternatively person Android users to iPhones.

It remains to beryllium seen however this "green bubble vs. bluish bubble" happening pans retired and however agelong until Apple budges and adopts RCS.

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