Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of SMS, Google encrypts the group chat in the Messages app end to end

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, December 4 (Xinhua)-- to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SMS (commonly known as SMS), Google announced that its messaging app Messages will support end-to-end encryption of group chat in the coming weeks, a feature that has been used for one-on-one message conversations for years.

However, the end-to-end encryption feature of Messages group chat is only available to information users who participate in the test plan, so if you want to try, you must participate in the test plan.

In addition to announcing end-to-end encryption of group chat, Google also announced that the Messages app will soon allow users to reply to RCS messages with any emoji, similar to WhatsApp.

Google also took the 30th anniversary of texting as an opportunity to ridicule Apple's refusal to adopt RCS, saying that "all major mobile operators and manufacturers adopt RCS as the standard-except Apple. Apple refuses to use RCS, and when iPhone users send messages to people using Android phones, they can only use text messages, which means their text messages are still in the 1990s."

CTOnews.com learned that Google launched a # GetTheMessage campaign a few months ago to call on Apple to adopt RCS, but Apple has been quite persistent and stubborn. Apple CEO Tim Cook said he could consider buying an iPhone for your mother.