RCS on Android vs iOS: Is messaging finally equal?

If you weren’t looking for it, you might not have noticed that Apple officially announced a feature that could fix messaging between iPhones and Android phones at WWDC 2024, but it was there, buried in a presentation slide. As part of iOS 18, Apple is adding support for RCS, or Rich Communication Services, to the Messages app, finally bringing some sense of parity to group chats and messages between friends and family on Apple’s platform and Google’s.