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Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

Apple notes that the encrypted messages are just a test and aren't available for all devices, carriers, or regions yet.

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Apple added RCS to the iPhone, but crucially, the current implementation lacks end-to-end encryption. That's changing in the latest beta.

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