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  "path": "/2026/02/07/apple-messages-app-upgrades-coming-soon-ios-26-4-rcs-texting/",
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  "textContent": "Last year, Apple confirmed that it’d be supporting end-to-end encryption with RCS in a future software update. At the time, iOS 18 was still the latest version of iOS – thus implying that the upgrade would come as part of the next round of software – iOS 26.\n\nSo far, end-to-end encryption is yet to ship. That’s not the only thing though. The upgrade to end-to-end encryption would’ve also necessitated other major upgrades to the RCS protocol, and as of iOS 26.3 RC, it’s all still missing.\n\nmore…",
  "title": "Apple will introduce these key Messages app upgrades very soon, here’s what they are"
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