- Now you can edit texts sent from Android to iOS
- Change is part of the updated RCS standard
- However, IOS sent text messages cannot yet be edited
Sending text messages between an iPhone and an Android device has long been a fairly poor experience, with characteristics such as writing indicators and reading receipts that are missing for years. That has changed in recent years thanks to the use of rich communication services (RCS), and is contributing another benefit to its multiplatform chats.
In this case, that is the ability to edit text messages sent from an Android phone to an iPhone (through Android Authority). This feature seems to be gradually implemented for Android users, so it is not yet available for everyone. But if you are working for you, all you should do is press for a long time in a message sent, then touch the pencil icon, make your adjustments and save your message.
Unfortunately, this does not work backwards, that is, the texts sent from an iPhone to an Android device cannot be edited. Presumably, Apple will need to update its application messages to add support for this functionality.
He has been able to edit texts sent between iPhones for years, and the messages that go from an Android device to another have been editable when RCS is used for about twelve months. But although editable messages are now part of RCS, companies such as Apple and Google need to admit the function, so it is not available in iOS at this time.
Slowly add support
Apple has been reluctant to support the RC for a long time, partly because it previously offered a much weaker encryption than Apple’s IMessage platform, which is encrypted from end to end. However, the change that introduced editable texts to RCS has now also presented an end -to -end encryption, which could help soften things with Apple.
The deployment of editable messages has not been completely free of pain either. While edited messages appear normal on Android (with a small “edited” time below them), they behave differently in iOS. There, iPhone users see a second message preceded by an asterisk, doubling the number of texts on their screen.
Both Apple and Google supported RCS Multiplatforma messages earlier this year, so we hope that these errors and oddities will be resolved in due time. For now, however, the situation in text messages on telephone platforms has been improved, even if it is only small.
