With the arrival of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iPhone last year, the experience of texting from iOS to Android improved dramatically. As Apple says … The post Android is finally going to let ...

When I respond to it, I get an invalid number error, but she still receives the text. If I text her in our normal thread, she receives it too. But all her responses come from a number that is invalid.

Alas, this is RCS in iOS 18. You can tell because the image of the plants is actually visible, the Android user sent a voice memo, and, of course, the label on the text field reads "Text Message ...

With iOS 16, Apple is updating the Messages app to fix an irritating design choice it made when it introduced Tapbacks. It’ll now render these reactions when sent in group chats with Android ...