The GSM Association (GSMA), the organization responsible for developing the Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, announced on Tuesday that

With the launch of RCS messaging on iPhones with iOS 18, the governing body behind the standard is now teasing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) between iOS and Android."The next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to add important user protections such as interoperable end-to-end encryption,

In the announcement, GSMA technical director Tom Van Pelt said the next milestone for RCS Universal Profile is the “first deployment of standardized, interoperable messaging encryption between different computing platforms.