Previously, she worked at DPReview. A change to messaging in iOS 17 might be on the way to alleviate some of the pain involved in group chats between iPhone and Android owners.

Apple recently released iOS 18 and one of the bigger additions is RCS support, offering a more modern messaging experience between Android phones and iPhones. However, it turns out there’s one ...

Ultimately, the "improvements" brought to iMessage group chats in iOS 17 benefit iPhone users only. And, in some ways, they hurt the text messaging experience for Android users even more.

In the first beta of iOS 17, there are a few changes that work for iPhone users within an iMessage group chat. However, these features do not carry over to the Android side — at least, not yet.

Facebook today launched Groups for Android and iOS, offering new functionality for a feature that is very closely tied to the social network.