Apple introduced Monday that it’ll help wealthy communication companies for iPhones, serving to to ease the inexperienced and blue bubble divide.

The replace will come later subsequent yr and can work alongside the corporate’s iMessage system.

“We imagine RCS Common Profile will provide a greater interoperability expertise when in comparison with SMS or MMS,” an Apple spokesperson stated in an announcement.

The announcement comes after years of resistance from the Silicon Valley big, punctuated by Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner telling a reporter for the Guardian to, “Purchase your mother an iPhone,” when requested about enhancing the compatibility between Android and iPhone messaging.

Tech rival Google stated that it’s comfortable to see Apple including RCS to iPhones.

“We welcome Apple’s participation in our ongoing work with GSMA to evolve RCS and make messaging extra equitable and safe and stay up for working with them to implement this on iOS in a manner that works properly for everybody,” Google stated in an announcement to 9to5Google.

Apple additionally made the announcement forward of a Thursday deadline to file arguments within the European Union that iMessage isn’t a “core” service below the Union’s Digital Providers Act. If regulators discover that iMessage is a “core” service, the corporate must open this system.

New options supported by RCS

The corporate stated that including RCS will enable customers to ship and obtain excessive decision photographs and movies and supply extra dependable group messaging.

Customers can even have the power to activate learn receipts and share one’s location inside a textual content thread, in response to Apple.

Apple stated that it’s working with GSMA members, the group that created RCS requirements, to strengthen the encryption however that RCS provides stronger encryption than SMS and MMS companies.