You might not be able to use RCS in iOS 18 beta anytime soon [Video]

As announced by Apple at WWDC 2024, iOS 18 officially brings support for RCS – or Rich Communication Services – to the iPhone. However, as we previously reported, the feature doesn’t seem to be available to beta users. Unfortunately, iOS 18 beta users might have to wait a bit longer before they can enable RCS on their iPhone.

With RCS, iPhone users can send rich messages with audio and larger media files to Android users. Although RCS messages will still have green bubbles, the Messages app will show the label “Text Message – RCS” in the conversation.

No signs of RCS were seen in the first beta of iOS 18 released earlier this month. However, the second beta of iOS 18 released on Monday added a new RCS toggle in the Settings app, at least for some users. This has made beta testers wonder why some of them aren’t seeing the toggle, or even why the feature isn’t working despite the toggle being turned on.

Well, we now have the answer.

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