Apple Confirms RCS E2EE Will Ship with iOS 26.5

fria:

that the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption feature will ship with iOS 26.5

Whilst any enhancements to privacy (or at least finally adopting e2ee…), it’s still not something I’ll be turning on and using. I’m not comfortable with Google at all. Further, it will collect metadata in the same way that WhatsApp does - and I don’t have WhatsApp for this reason, either - coupled with you having to trust closed source proprietaries.

Great if people are using it as it is an enhancement, just not for me nor those in the U.K.

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