As introduced by Apple at WWDC 2024, iOS 18 formally brings help for RCS – or Wealthy Communication Providers – to the iPhone. Nevertheless, as we beforehand reported, the function doesn’t appear to be accessible to beta customers. Sadly, iOS 18 beta customers might need to attend a bit longer earlier than they will allow RCS on their iPhone.

RCS coming to iPhone with iOS 18

With RCS, iPhone customers can ship wealthy messages with audio and bigger media information to Android customers. Though RCS messages will nonetheless have inexperienced bubbles, the Messages app will present the label “Textual content Message – RCS” within the dialog.

No indicators of RCS have been seen within the first beta of iOS 18 launched earlier this month. Nevertheless, the second beta of iOS 18 launched on Monday added a brand new RCS toggle within the Settings app, at the very least for some customers. This has made beta testers marvel why a few of them aren’t seeing the toggle, and even why the function isn’t working regardless of the toggle being turned on.

Nicely, we now have the reply.

As seen by 9to5Mac within the iOS 18 beta 2 code, RCS help on the iPhone depends on Apple working with service companions to get them to replace their bundles shipped with iOS. Proper now, only some carriers (corresponding to AT&T and T-Cellular within the US) have up to date their service bundles to help RCS on the iPhone.

In fact, there’s nonetheless time for extra carriers to work on enabling RCS help on the iPhone by September, when iOS 18 will likely be accessible to the general public. However on the identical time, which means that most beta customers most likely received’t be capable to check the brand new function.

A public beta of iOS 18 will likely be accessible subsequent month.

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