RCS, which is the spiritual successor to SMS, is increasingly being supported by various carriers and mobile phone brands around the world. However, its rollout was not as seamless as it should’ve been, which forced Google to release the RCS feature to all Android smartphones via its own Google Messages app. The app lacked an important security feature, though, and Google has now fixed it.
The Google Messages app now features end-to-end encryption in one-to-one chats on all supported Android smartphones. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Senior Vice President at Google, announced the arrival of this important security feature via a tweet. With this feature enabled by default, RCS chats will now be more secure, and the messages can’t be intercepted by anyone (even by Google) while they’re in transit.
