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

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes. Apple says ...

With the upcoming launch of iOS 26.5, Apple will add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between the iPhone and Google Messages on Android. Apple today made available the release candidate ...

end-to-end encryption ensures that messages exchanged between supported iPhones and Android devices remain protected while being transmitted.

Phone and Android texts can finally be end-to-end encrypted in iOS 26.5 – but carrier support determines whether your chats ...

The immediate benefit of this upgrade is straightforward: when an RCS conversation is end-to-end encrypted, the messages cannot be read while they travel between devices. Users wi ...