It's relatively easy to manage device encryption when there are only iOS devices in a mobile fleet. Apple provides a single encryption standard across all of the iOS devices it manufactures. Android ...

Google received a lot of praise for the security improvements in Android N, but some security experts have taken Google to task over what they claim are shortcomings with Android N encryption. What ...

Android devices used by billions of people worldwide are set to adopt a new class of encryption designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers that do not yet exist but could eventually crack ...

Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) yesterday published new specifications for the Rich ...

Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. With the release of iOS 18 in 2024, iPhone users were finally able to exchange rich text ...

It looks like end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages on iPhones might be arriving sooner than expected. Code spotted ...

With iOS 26.4 beta 2, Apple announced it will finally start offering developers the ability to test RCS end-to-end encryption between iOS and Android devices. While this new message standard won't be ...

Apple has started testing end-to-end encrypted RCS in the first iOS 26.4 developer beta. RCS encryption currently works only between iPhones, not between iPhone and Android. Apple says full RCS E2EE ...

No more unencrypted cross-platform texts. The green bubble problem just got a little less problematic. Apple added RCS to iOS 18 under regulatory pressure — the EU's Digital Markets Act and similar ...