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I’m not sure they actually told us but you can bet they’re green. Blue = iMessage, not encrypted. Everything else is green. You’re right that RCS is not encry
by MBCook 2y ago
I’m not sure they actually told us but you can bet they’re green.
Blue = iMessage, not encrypted. Everything else is green.
You’re right that RCS is not encrypted by default. Encryption can be added on top, that’s what Google has done on Android. But since it’s not part of the standard and it’s just something Google runs I wouldn’t expect Apple to do that.
We’ll find out soon.
- yieldcrv 2y agoyeah, Apple has previously said that green means not encrypted, implying that blue is encrypted. Where the SMS aspect of green is just happenstance, and again only implying that the blue of imessage is just happenstance too. I think this phrasing is just a CYA thing. But I’m definitely curious.
- MBCook 2y agoBut I think that’s just because SMS wasn’t encrypted. If it was they would just explain things differently. I think the number one thing for them is features. Blue equals all the features, green equals whatever works. So even if RCS were to be done encrypted, which I doubt, it wouldn’t support the message effects or text formatting or iMessage apps. So they would still use blue to differentiate. As things exist today, encryption is simply what they think is most important so that’s what they lead with.