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According to theWashington Post, the biggest problem right now is that of security.

For instance, when you send messages between iOS devices using the iMessage protocol, everything is end-to-end encrypted.

An iPhone and an Android phone side-by-side

Yet thats not the case when messages are sent between iOS and Android users with RCS.

The issues arent just limited to security.

Stickers sent by iOS users to Android devices will disappear after a few seconds on the recipients phone.

An iPhone on a blue background showing an iMessage conversation

That means the system is far from perfect.

Instead, though, both Apple andGoogleare reportedly working to fix these issues by upgrading the RCS standard itself.

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