The clearance puts Apple in an exclusive position – no other consumer smartphone or tablet maker has ever reached the same security threshold under the alliance's ...

Prosecutors increasingly rely on cellphone location data, messages and cryptocurrency trails to reconstruct timelines and ...

Discover iOS 26.4 Beta 2 updates: redesigned pages, encryption, liquid glass effects, and ecosystem enhancements for a ...

The long-awaited security update for cross-platform messaging is finally here, ensuring your "green bubble" conversations stay private and secure.

Apple notes that the encrypted messages are just a test and aren't available for all devices, carriers, or regions yet.

iOS 26.4 beta 2 is now rolling out for developers, and it expands support for testing encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone.

Despite these updates, Apple has no plans to launch E2EE for RCS with the official release of iOS 26.4, and hasn't confirmed which version it will launch encryption with.

Apple testing RCS Android iPhone encryption in iOS 26.4 Beta 2. Secure cross-platform texting is coming, but not shipping ...

The first sign something changed was not a splashy new emoji or a fresh coat of Apple gloss. It was a tiny lock icon, sitting ...

Now, Apple's latest iOS 26.4 Developer Beta 2 finally starts testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Apple-to-Android RCS messaging, leveraging the GSMA’s RCS Universal Profile 3.0, which uses ...

Apple has released the second beta of iOS 26.4, expanding end-to-end encryption for RCS messages to include Android users.