Samsung’s Galaxy S22 telephones push Google Messages and the excellent news of RCS

Much more individuals is perhaps about to start out utilizing Rich Communication Services (RCS), the brand new messaging customary that has had an extended and messy rollout, as Google’s Messages app appears to be the brand new messaging default for newer Samsung gadgets. While the Galaxy S21 lineup shipped with Samsung Messages by default final 12 months within the US, 9to5Google noticed its Galaxy S22 Plus evaluation unit had Google Messages set because the default when arrange from scratch, and that’s the case with The Verge’s Galaxy S22 Ultra evaluation unit as effectively.

RCS presents many enhancements over SMS texting, akin to typing indicators, learn receipts, and the flexibility to share greater decision photographs and bigger recordsdata, however adoption within the US has taken years. Google has largely led the cost and even rolled out end-to-end encryption to its messaging app in June. But the large carriers have dragged their ft — whereas they agreed to interchange SMS with RCS in 2019, we needed to wait till 2021 for T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon to commit to creating Google Messages the default messaging app for his or her Android telephones.

Samsung telephones make up a big quantity of the Android telephones bought within the US, so the swap to Google Messages ought to be a boon for RCS adoption. Now we simply want Apple to get on the RCS prepare, which Google would love, too.