From CNET: Messaging between blue and green bubbles is getting more secure. With the release of iOS 26.5, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging will start rolling out in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users with the latest version of Google Messages, according to a post from Apple on Monday.
End-to-end encryption protects a message's privacy and security when it's being sent from one device to another. Apple and Google have long offered encrypted messaging within iMessage and Google Messages, respectively. But this kind of encryption didn't work for RCS and SMS messages sent between iOS and Android until now.
The feature will gradually roll out to iPhone and Android users over the coming months.
For years, there's been a "blue versus green bubble" divide between iPhone and Android owners. This ranged from Android users being teased for their green bubbles breaking iMessage group threads to becoming a major social stigma, with people being bullied for not having an iPhone.
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