- You can now change the SMS sent from Android to iOS
- Change is part of the RCS update standard
- The texts sent from iOS to Android cannot yet be modified, however
Sending text messages between an iPhone and an Android device has long been a pretty bad experience, with features such as striking indicators and missing reading receipts for years. This has changed in recent years thanks to the use of rich communication services (RCS), and it brings another advantage to your multiplatform cats.
In this case, this is the possibility of modifying the SMS sent from an Android phone to an iPhone (via Android Authority). This feature seems to be gradually taking place in Android users, so it is not yet available for everyone. But if it works for you, everything you have to do is long press a message sent, then press the pencil icon, make your adjustments and save your message.
Unfortunately, this does not work in the other direction-that is to say that the texts sent from an iPhone to an Android device cannot be modified. Presumably, Apple will have to update its application of messages to add the management of this functionality.
You have been able to modify texts sent between iPhones for years, and messages ranging from one Android device to another have been modified when using RCS for about twelve months. But although modifiable messages are now part of RCS, companies like Apple and Google must take care of functionality – which is why it is not available in iOS at the moment.
Slowly add the support
Apple has been reluctant to take care of the RCS for a long time, in part because it previously offered a much lower encryption than the Imessage de Apple platform, which is encrypted from start to finish. However, the change that introduced modifiable texts to RCS also caused end -to -end encryption, which could help straighten things with Apple.
The deployment of modifiable messages was not entirely painless either. While the messages edited appear to be normal on Android (with a small horoditing “edited” under them), they behave differently in iOS. There, iPhone users see a second message preceded by an asterisk, doubling the number of texts on their screen.
Apple and Google have both supported RCS Multiplateforms earlier this year, so we hope that these bugs and quirks will be calculated in due course. For the moment, however, the situation where SMS on telephone platforms have been improved, if only in a small way.
