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The GSM Association promises end-to-end encryption is coming to the Rich Communication Services messaging standard, which will better protect communications between mobile devices.

The GSM Association (GSMA), the organization responsible for developing the Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, announced on Tuesday that

RCS messaging just rolled out for iPhones with iOS 18, but the GSMA is now looking ahead to allow end-to-end encrypted messages between iPhones and Android devices.

The big news of the week for Android users who want to send messages to their friends with iPhones involves the big update to iOS 18 that was just released by Apple. With this update, iPhone owners can send RCS messages over to Android users,

Apple's support for RCS has finally gone live with iOS 18, enabling cross-platform messaging with advanced features. End-to-end encryption for cross-platform RCS chats appears to be in the pipeline. GSMA is working to introduce interoperable encryption for RCS chats to ensure secure messaging between Android and iOS users.

Thankfully both Google and GSMA have confirmed they’re working to fix this glaring security hole. GSMA has said that the “next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to add important user protections such as interoperable end-to-end encryption.”

Apple rolled out iOS 18 to all supported iPhone models earlier this week. While the iOS 18 does bring a host of new features to the iPhones, it also brings support for RCS or Rich Communication Services to Apple's smartphones,