Apple’ Messages app could be about to get much better, if a promise that Apple made earlier in the year comes good at WWDC, the company’s big developer conference that kicks off on Monday, June 9.

That’s down to making messaging more secure. As you’ll know, until recently, if a green bubble appeared in your messages, it indicated that it was just a regular SMS message, rather than the end-to-end-encrypted message indicated by a blue bubble. Usually, though not always, green bubbles were because the messages came from an Android phone.

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The trouble with traditional SMS is it’s basic and lacks security, so Apple’s decision last year to integrate the more advanced RCS Universal profile was welcome, offering more advanced messages between Android and Apple platforms: rich messages with larger media files and audio.

In March this year, Apple announced it would be bringing E2EE to RCS. “End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross-industry effort to bring end-to-end encryption to the RCS Universal Profile published by the GSMA. We will add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in future software updates,” Apple said. Google swiftly followed suit, saying it was “committed to providing a secure messaging experience.”

Now, 9to5Mac is reporting that since RCS arrived for the iPhone a year ago, that E2EE could be imminent: “With this capability incorporated into the standard, all Rich Communication Standard (RCS) messaging between iPhone and Android users would be completely unreadable to backend intermediaries—its contents encrypted, scrambled into gibberish, and only unlockable by the decryption key stored on the user devices,” it said.

“What better place to demonstrate Apple’s device privacy and security lead,” than at WWDC, the report asks. Just don’t expect those green bubbles to go anywhere.

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