> That's the rub. Why would Apple allow text messages to be once again controlled by both telcos and governments, including interception? SMS text messaging ON

> That's the rub. Why would Apple allow text messages to be once again controlled by both telcos and governments, including interception? SMS text messaging ONLY works over the carrier's cell network, never IP. Its a hold-over from another time. It should've had died when phones became internet connected. But it didn't, and now we've tied MFA to it... so its here to stay. > I can't find an open standards document anywhere on the Internet for RCS. Can you? I haven't looked into RCS in a long time. But I do remember it wasn't great. The reason its such a mish-mash of carrier "standards" is because that is exactly what SMS is. When text messaging first came out, you could not message someone on a different carrier. Eventually carriers bridged their messaging networks, but it was always a hot mess (especially when it came to MMS).