Zak Doffman has covered security, surveillance and privacy on Forbes since 2018. His focus includes the latest updates from the world’s largest tech companies, staying safe on smartphones and social media, and the dangers of AI.
As hundreds of millions of iPhone users update their devices to iOS 18, tinting their home screens and navigating their new Photos app, the reality is that this update is more about what’s missing than what has been released. No Apple Intelligence—at least not yet, and another gaping omission that has also been confirmed.
So, was this inevitable and unsolvable? No—not in any understandable way. “Apple largely blames limitations in the technology that meshes iPhone and Android messaging apps,”—is that Apple and Google could have collaborated on a secure API between their messengers to fully secure content, to better compete with Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or texting within their own walled gardens. Or Apple could have delivered an Android iMessage app.
While RCS has been popularized by Google’s managed push across the entire Android ecosystem, it has done so with a proprietary client that adds a fully encrypted layer along with other updates. RCS itself doesn’t include full security, and it’s that limited protocol that Apple has adopted for its iOS 18 update. Apple has said that it will work with the mobile industry’s standard setters to push for an improved protocol. But that’s not coming anytime soon. And until then these compromises remain.
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