iOS 26.4 beta 2 is now rolling out for developers, and it expands support for testing encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone. When iOS 26.4 beta 1 was released last week, it added early support for testing ...

Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to thousands of ...

Apple released iOS 26.3 about two weeks ago, but the company is preparing another iOS update, this time without a beta cycle. MacRumors initially reported that Apple has an iOS 26.3.1 update in the ...

Apple is testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in the iOS 26.4 developer beta. This is a long-awaited privacy upgrade for texting across platforms. Apple has confirmed that the feature will not ...

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway. Part of the RCS Universal Profile from the GSMA, messages between Android and iOS ...

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...

Macworld reports that Apple is testing iOS 26.3.1 without a beta cycle, with the update expected within one to two weeks. This point-release focuses on bug fixes, security patches, and support for new ...

Apple is on its second round of developer betas for the current generation, issuing new builds of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, watchOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4 for testing. The ...

Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple seeded the first betas. Registered ...

After the first beta was iPhone to iPhone only, the second iOS 26.4 developer beta lets iPhones and Androids trade fully encrypted RCS messages for the first time. You may recall that in the first iOS ...