Probably see it later in beta, as we get some features enabled later on, around DB4-DB6. We see this every year, not everything in the Keynote is in B1.
Actually, I think this is solely on Apple enabling it in iOS in a future beta. Carriers will already be supporting it their end due to other devices already using it. I would even bet that the carrier update in iOS 18 betas already have what’s needed
It’s going up be in 18.0 final release, otherwise it would be tagged as ‘coming later this year’ like Mail app updates, etc. probably see it in DB4 or so.
My money is on no carrier involvement at all. Messages app is essentially US only due to iMessage hype there. Most US carriers gave up providing native RCS hubs to their customers, pushing them all to Google Messages / Jibe.
There is a person on X that was able to get it working now. Carriers are handling the backend on T-Mobile (their own) and AT&T with Jibe. It's not 100% functional yet and I'm sure more carriers like Verizon will add support when it launches, but it works.
I’m suspicious of that post and not just cos it’s ‘X’, as it seems fishy that only one person has it working, despite the amount of people that have the Beta running and don’t have RCS.
Link? I highly doubt anyone gets this to work without Apple enabling it in software
Ah yes, because its on the internet and posted by some random person on Social Media, it's true.
Ok I take it back, looks pretty convincing.
I don't know if it's true or not. If it is true there will be other tech nerds that figure it out and we'll see more posts. I was just asked for a link and you can draw your own conclusions.
Yes. It also sort of makes sense it doesn't work on Verizon yet because they are still in the process of moving carrier services over to Jibe. I think the announcement they were moving to Jibe was pretty recent. AT&T has been using Jibe for awhile. I guess it works on T-Mobiles own RCS backend according to this guy, but I thought they were also moving to Jibe.
Ok. I didn't see that yet, so yeah Jibe will be the backend for pretty much everyone. That makes sense considering pretty much all the carriers have moved to Jibe. I'm sure it's cheaper to just pay Google to run a server instead of having their own plus it's likely more reliable. Of course E2EE has nothing to do with Jibe, but everything to do with Google Messages running an extension on-top of the universal profile so I don't see E2EE coming between iPhones and Android phones anytime soon. Still this is a huge improvement over SMS/MMS. Encrypted in transit is still much safer than sending plain text.
Yeah kind of surprising to me that Apple is content enough with handing off control of their RCS experience to carriers / Jibe. Was under the impression that they‘ll provide their own hub to tightly control their sliver of RCS.
Yeah I'm sure Apple is like we'll provide this feature in the software, but we are not spending one penny to operate it. They will always be bitter about this and USB-C in the iPhone.
