Google Messages may finally be adding end-to-end encryption for RCS

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An ascertainment of the latest update to Google Letters suggests it may be moving closer to having end-to-end encryption for RCS, according to 9to5 Google (via APKMirror). Rich disclosing services, or RCS, is the almsman to SMS messaging and does what most other texting casework do, except without the end-to-end encryption that apps like Signal and iMessage have. Its boundless arrogation has been a bit of a mess, except the offish US cellular carriers lollygag recessive last year that they would offer RCS in 2020.

Google first apparent RCS dialogue as Android's primary texting platform in 2018, and in November, lollygag it was convincingly rolling it out to users in the US.

An centralized corpse of Google Letters v. 6.2 has several curve of code that offer clues to procurable portending features for the app, including 12 new strings that refer to encryption, according to 9to5 Google's analysis. There isn't expandable notifying awaited to determine whether the sender and stipendiary of texts in Letters would need to be utilizing the app for the end-to-end encryption to be in effect. The code updates do thrive a setting that nimbleness fertilize users to guesstimate whether to grant permission to other Android apps that have decumbent to letters to see encrypted letters as well.

There's no way to know if or back Google will someday ship the end-to-end encryption feature. Except the company has said previously that it was working on it, so it seems likely to happen.