This is critical because U.S. federal agencies repeatedly warn that texting without the protection of end-to-end encryption ...

You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a ...

Apple appears close to supporting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, almost a year after the GSM Association said ...

Apple may be working on implementing encryption for RCS messages. References to this development were spotted in the iOS 26.3 ...

As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators ...

iPhone users will soon be able to send end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to Android users. This is thanks to the new RCS ...

The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...

This is the standard encryption that was introduced with RCS Universal Profile 3.0 almost a year ago. It was nearly a year ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As a devastating wildfire burned through a ...