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T-Mobile Switches to Google’s Jibe for RCS Messaging

Kellen September 21, 2023 19

Switching gears on the RCS chatter today, let's now talk about something good in the world of upgraded messaging - T-Mobile is switching to Google's Jibe platform! Hey, that's great. While we know that Apple will likely never adopt RCS, T-Mobile is taking a...

Beeper Now Supports Google Messages and RCS Messaging

Tim August 18, 2023 13

Beeper, a messaging platform that essentially allows all of your various messages apps to have a unified home inside of a single app, introduced Google Messages and RCS support this week. For Android users, this is great as you can now continue to use Beeper...

All RCS Conversations in Google Messages, Including Group Chats, Now End-to-End Encrypted

Tim August 8, 2023 11

Google detailed this morning that as of this week, all RCS conversations inside of Google Messages, including group chats (first launched in beta earlier this year), are now end-to-end encrypted. That means the texts between you and your friends are private,...

AT&T Switches to Google’s Jibe for RCS

Kellen June 9, 2023 25

The adoption of RCS, the advanced text messaging service that has taken over Android, has moved rather quickly in recent years. Carriers were at one point hesitant (or slow) to deploy RCS in a universal way that worked between their customers and those on...

Apple Didn’t Announce RCS for iMessage at WWDC

Kellen June 5, 2023 67

Google really wants Apple "to fix texting." Their campaign to try and convince Apple to include RCS within iMessage has not slowed and is very much an ongoing focus of their messaging pitch. In fact, at Google I/O a couple of weeks ago, Google once again made...

Google Messages Update Causing Crashes on Android 14

Kellen May 3, 2023 7

The current Android 14 Beta and a recent Google Messages update are not working together at the moment. If you have run into issues with Messages crashing over and over again, you are not alone, but you also have some fixes to try. A couple of readers...

Google Messages Stable Gets Encryption in Group Chats

Kellen April 21, 2023 5

Since we all love encryption and sending messages, there's big news to know about in the world of Google Messages. After first rolling out encryption to group chats in the beta version of Google Messages, folks on stable are apparently now seeing that same...

Google Starts Calling RCS by Its Name

Kellen February 24, 2023 22

When Google rolled out the word "Chat" as the name for RCS messaging however many years ago, it was a very odd choice. Not because the word "chat" doesn't relate to people having conversations, but because it was the name of a back-end service that wouldn't be...