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Google Messages makes serious headway toward secure cross-platform RCS messaging

Code and flags related to MLS, codenamed "Zinnia," have been discovered within the latest Google Messages beta (v20250106_00_RC00), indicating active integration of the new encryption standard.
Geeky Gadgets

RCS Triumphs: Samsung & Google Celebrate Cross-Platform Messaging

Cross-platform messaging is transforming the way people communicate by allowing seamless interaction across different devices and operating systems. In the past, messaging was often limited by ...

Apple Prepares iOS 26 With RCS 3 Support Major Upgrades for Messaging

Apple is planning to add support for RCS 3 in iOS 26, a move that could improve messaging capabilities between iPhones and ...
ExtremeTech

Code Snippet Reveals That Google Messages Is Getting Even More Secure

Google has added Messaging Layer Security (MLS) encryption within its Messages app, as revealed in the latest beta version 20250106. This is an important step toward making end-to-end encryption (E2EE ...
Android Authority

Android and Apple users: Critical RCS messaging protection is still months away despite FBI warning

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) has said that it’s working on bringing end-to-end encryption to different messaging platforms that support the RCS protocol. Unfortunately, the ...
No Jitter

Messaging as a Programming Platform

Messaging vendors are reinventing themselves as platforms for innovations – taking bigger chunks of communications and opening up to other services. We tend to view Google and Apple as the developer ...