Samsung warns all Android users that texts to friends using iPhone are at risk after major Apple change

SAMSUNG has cautioned Android owners with iPhone-owning friends that their substance messages mightiness not beryllium arsenic unafraid arsenic they think.

Earlier this year, Apple rolled retired the long-awaited RCS, oregon Rich Communication Services, arsenic portion of iOS 18.

RCS is the successor to SMS and MMS, and has been disposable connected Android devices from some Samsung and Google for implicit a decade.

Samsung's archetypal RCS susceptible devices were launched successful Europe successful 2012, and person been successful the US since 2015. 

It fundamentally makes iPhone-to-Android texting overmuch much similar iPhone-to-iPhone texting via iMessage.

However, Apple has not yet included end-to-end encryption with its RCS messaging - meaning conversations had with this caller diagnostic could beryllium intercepted.

End-to-end encryption scrambles messages into a codification that cannot beryllium work by hackers, oregon adjacent the big messenger.

It's what Google Messages, iMessage and WhatsApp usage to marque definite messages are work by the sender and recipient alone.

“Samsung and Google invited a caller epoch of much seamless, cross-platform messaging,” the institution said successful a statement.

“With the latest mentation of iOS supporting RCS, the benefits are disposable beyond the Android ecosystem,” Samsung added, earlier informing that “encryption is lone disposable for Android to Android communication.”

Although the informing is not lone directed astatine Android owners.

iPhone owners excessively whitethorn privation to heed the proposal by utilizing an end-to-end encrypted app similar WhatsApp to pass with Android-owning pals.

In iOS 18.2, which reportedly rolls retired successful conscionable 2 weeks, volition fto users acceptable a caller default messaging app connected their iPhone.

The GSMA, the US-based mobile standards setter, and Google person promised that end-to-end encryption is coming to RCS.

Though neither has fixed a timeline.

Apple has made nary remark connected the information adjustment.

Instead, the institution has amazed users iOS 18.2’s default app option.