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Google Messages starts testing end-to-end encryption for RCS group texts
Google is starting to test end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messages for RCS group chats on Android. Some users who are enrolled in the Messages open beta program will gain access in the coming weeks ahead of a broader rollout. The company said during its I/O 2022 developer conference that an E2EE beta for group chats would be available by the end of this year.
The move comes 18 months after Google Messages started offering E2EE for one-on-one conversations to shield chats from prying eyes. It started testing E2EE in Messages in November 2020, so it may be several months before the privacy feature is enabled for all group chats.
Many carriers and phone manufacturers have gotten on board with RCS over the last several years to offer features such as high-quality photos and videos, read receipts and E2EE. The 30-year-old SMS format doesn’t support any of those. Still, there’s one company that’s continuing to turn its nose up at RCS — Apple, which is staying cozy inside the walled garden of iMessage.
Google has been publicly pleading with Apple to adopt RCS but so far those efforts haven’t proven fruitful. In September, Apple CEO Tim Cook jokingly suggested that iOS users who are having trouble sending videos to a loved one with an Android device should just buy them an iPhone.
Nevertheless, Google has been trying to improve iOS and Android messaging interoperability, and it made another attempt to get Apple onboard with RCS in a blog post. “Today, all of the major mobile carriers and manufacturers have adopted RCS as the standard — except for Apple,” Messages group product manager Neena Budhiraja wrote. “Apple refuses to adopt RCS and continues to rely on SMS when people with iPhones message people with Android phones, which means their texting is stuck in the 1990s.”
Still, there are companies that are working on ways to make iMessage accessible on other devices. Just this week, the developers of an app called Sunbird claim to have gotten iMessage to work on Android.
Google Again Criticizes Apple for Not Adopting RCS for Messages App: ‘Their Texting is Stuck in the 1990s’
It provides support for higher resolution photos and videos, audio messages, and bigger file sizes, plus it adds improved encryption, cross-platform emoji reactions, and more reliable group chats across different devices. Google has been pushing Apple to adopt RCS for well over a year now, but so far, Apple is not budging.
Google’s new blog post points out that this week marks the 30th anniversary of the SMS messaging standard, as the first SMS message was sent on December 3, 1992. Google argues that it’s time for an update, calling out Apple for “dragging its heels.”
Google points out that with RCS, cross-platform end-to-end encrypted messaging would be available. Features like real-time typing indicators, read receipts, higher-quality photos and videos, and more control over group chats would be standard on both iPhones and Android phones.
All major mobile carriers and manufacturers have implemented RCS support, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Motorola, Nokia, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, and others. Apple continues to be the lone holdout, and the company has so far hardly acknowledged Google’s attempts to push RCS adoption.
There is no word on if Apple has considered supporting RCS, nor when such support might be implemented. In a September interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that it is not a priority. “I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” said Cook.
Cook further suggested an iPhone upgrade to a reporter who mentioned having trouble texting photos to his mother who uses an Android phone. “Buy your mom an iPhone,” he said.
Google has gone as far as publishing an entire “Get the Message” website on RCS and Apple’s lack of adoption for the feature, encouraging Apple customers to ask Apple to “fix what’s broken” by switching from SMS to RCS. Google has also published anti-Apple ads promoting RCS, but nothing so far has caught Apple’s attention.
This article, “Google Again Criticizes Apple for Not Adopting RCS for Messages App: ‘Their Texting is Stuck in the 1990s’” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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I found a Samsung hack that allows you to see old deleted messages – here’s how
IT is possible to find old deleted messages on Samsung devices thanks to a cheeky hidden feature, a user has revealed.
A phone boffin, who runs the TikTok page @gadgetsinnepall, says the process is simple – and only requires you to follow a few basic steps.
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In a clip, which has since been liked more than 966k times, the tech guru says you need to go into your phone and select settings.
Then type notification history into your search bar and select notification history from the drop-down menu.
From there you can choose to turn on recent and snoozed notifications.
Then if “anybody deletes any messages, you can find out what it was,” the TikToker said.
They added: “Just go back to notification history, scroll down and you can find all messages before they were deleted.”
Users in the comments were overjoyed by the useful find, branding the hack “amazing.”
One user said: “I’m very happy right now.”
“I’m grateful,” another added.
“Thanks for your help,” a third penned.
While a fourth wrote: “I’d recommend his services.”
Last week, it was also revealed that iPhone users had the ability to recover deleted texts thanks to a brand-new feature.
Apple recently updated every iPhone with the ability to bring deleted messages back from the dead.
You can recover any message that was deleted fewer than 30 days ago.
Sadly if a message was deleted more than 30 days ago, it’s automatically cleared forever.
But the good news is that recovering messages is extremely simple.
In other news, people are just realising you can still use iPhone while locked.
Plus we revealed how to stop iPhone battery “vampire drain” with simple hacks that instantly save charge.
Look Out for These USPS Shipping Scam Messages
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Phishing attacks and other scams are ever-present, but over the past few weeks, fake shipping notices sent over text or email have been on the rise. Don’t fall for them.
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NASA Will Let You Send Messages to an iPad On Board Orion
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NASA’s Artemis 1 mission features a host of demonstration technologies, including Callisto—a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco. The Callisto team is making it possible for anyone to communicate with the system, in which messages will be shown on an iPad screen “for the world to see.”
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Satellite Sets New Relay Record for Sending Martian Messages to Earth
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For 19 years, the Mars Express spacecraft has orbited the Red Planet, providing breathtaking views and valuable insights of Mars. The hard-working orbiter has not only relayed its own data back to Earth, but also provided a communication line between other Martian missions and ground control.