Google may have accidentally revealed when Apple would add RCS to iPhones

What you need to know

• Google has added a section to the Google Messages landing page that reveals when Apple will support RCS messaging on iPhone.
• Google has since removed that section from its landing page, but the information is still available through screenshots and the wayback machine.
• Apple has announced that RCS messaging will be coming to iPhones later this year, while Google has revealed in promotional materials that it will specifically be available in fall 2024.

Google finally won its battle with Apple last year when the Cupertino-based company agreed to support RCS messaging on iPhones later this year. Well, it looks like Google has leaked his Apple timeline regarding his use of RCS on iOS. In a new landing page for Google Messages, the company shared that his Apple “plans to adopt his RCS in the fall of 2024.” After a few hours, references to this timeline were permanently removed from this landing page.

In fact, the entire section where Apple revealed plans to support RCS messaging this fall has been removed. In the report, Google described RCS Messaging as “hi-res, goodbye blur” and noted the improved quality of photos and videos shared via RCS compared to SMS and MMS. Click . See more features The click of the button brought more attention to RCS, where Google outlined Apple’s timeline for supporting the messaging standard.

The section about Apple’s upcoming RCS support on the Google Messages landing page looked like this before it was removed:

Now, that entire section is gone from the very same Google Messages landing page. Although this section was only open to the public for a few hours, it was partially captured by the Wayback Machine. Initially, the spotlight was on three main features: customization, photomoji, and RCS. In the live version of the landing page, only the first two sections remain, and smaller sections about other features remain below them.