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Happy birthday and farewell, SMS! It's time for RCS

An animated gif showing an old-school emoticon birthday cake becoming a new, modern emoji birthday cake.
A visual of a Pixel phone using group end-to-end encryption text conversation.

End-to-end encryption is starting to roll out for group chats.

A visual of a Pixel phone showing conversations with multiple emoji reaction choices.

Messages by Google will soon let you react to RCS messages with any emoji.

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Most of the mobile world is already using RCS.

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