Just how popular is RCS messaging? Google announces a major US milestone.
Is this new figure due to Apple adopting RCS? Probably.


- Google has announced that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US every day.
- This figure comes over six months after Apple adopted the standard on iOS.
- RCS enables features like high-quality media sharing, typing indicators, and more.
Google has embraced RCS on Android for years, and Apple finally joined the party last year. Now, the search giant has announced a key milestone for the modern texting standard.
Google announced in a blog post that over one billion RCS messages are sent in the US every day. The company said this figure was an average over the last 28 days.