20/11/2020
*End-to-end encryption comes to RCS in Android Messages*
Google’s efforts in making a unified messaging app is still uncertain. Every Android user worldwide (outside China and Russia) now has access to the next-gen texting standard that is replacing SMS. Google is now offering RCS chat services through its Android Messages app to everyone who installs it and uses it as their default texting app, which partly bypasses a carrier rollout that, at times, has ranged from sluggish to incoherent to broken.
Unfortunately, SMS becoming fully deprecated and replaced by RCS will only happen if all goes to plan for Google.
End-to-end encryption will only work on one-on-one chats when both users are using Android Messages and have received the update. Enabling end-to-end encryption on group chats is a much trickier problem, so Google won’t commit to a timeline for extending the feature. Enjoy ❤