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Green bubble upgrade
RCS messaging finally lets iPhones and Androids play nice together.
Lewis Wallace
January 18, 2025
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Now that iPhones support Rich Communication Services, those green-bubble texts with Android friends are much cooler.
They’re more fun and functional: You can send high-resolution photos and videos, for instance, and enjoy that maddening thing where the dancing ellipsis appears while your friend is typing and you wait … and wait … and wait … for them to hit send.
Read this weekend’s feature story or watch our video to find out more about what RCS messaging can do for you.
Also in this edition of The Weekender:
We’ve got all kinds of fresh rumors, including tidbits about upgrades coming to three of Apple’s oft-overlooked product lines.
Apple blew out the stops for the second season of Severance with wild promotional stunts almost as creative as the show itself. It was a worthy effort: Read our five-star recap/review of the first episode of Severance season two.
Did you know you can quickly convert a PDF to a JPG on your iPhone? You can.
And finally, an exclusive price drop makes a handy keychain cable even more appealing.
Enjoy your weekend!
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