Enabling RCS chats on Android only takes a few taps. Make sure you have an active SIM card inserted in your phone, and, in ...

Got one friend who refuses to upgrade their chat experience to RCS? Google Messages will help you put them on the right path.

Assuming your Android phone offers RCS (which requires Android 5.0 or newer) and your carrier supports it but the setup isn't working, there are a few things you can do to troubleshoot the problem.

Google is giving the first Android beta testers the opportunity to change RCS messages to iOS users retrospectively. However, ...

RCS allows users on both systems to share high-quality media, be 'seen' when messages are read, and know when someone is ...

With the arrival of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhone last year, the experience of texting from iOS to Android ...

Indeed, RCS is available to any Android handset with Android 4.4 and above, which is approximately 99% of the Android smartphones in-use today.

Later this month, Android users in the UK and France will be able to opt in to RCS Chat services provided directly by Google instead of waiting for their carrier to support it. That seems like yet ...

Unfortunately, as with all things Android and RCS, the results of that activity won’t be felt by users until later. Verizon won’t be making the switch to Android Messages until 2022.

The other main draw of bringing RCS to Messages is the ability to send full-resolution videos and images from Android to iOS, just like you can with iMessage between iPhones. After all, there’s ...

Apple has promised to add missing functions to the RCS support of the Messages app. However, this could still take some time.

Here's how you can check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol and how to enable it on your iPhone. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station ...