Android finally allows you to correct a message to iPhone, but the result is confusing
The two messaging systems – Google messages on Android and Imessage on iPhone – still struggle to offer a fluid experience between platforms. The arrival of the RCS tries to remedy it, but the differences persist. © Tada Images / Shutterstock
Between Android and iOS, messages of messages have never been a long, quiet river. Compression of images, absent features, misunderstandings when sending … but it moves. Grace RCS protocolSMS finally become a little clearer. And surprise: a flagship function begins to emerge, including in France. Edit a message shipped to an iPhone finally becomes possible. Yes, but …
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Android allows (finally) to rewrite a message sent to an iPhone – with some limits
It has been years since I am kept hands on the Imessage experience, while Google somehow pushes its RCS alternative. Latest advance: edition of messages, now possible even when intended for an iPhone.
Google began to test this function with certain Android users via its messages application, but only in the form of a/b deployment. To date, no verified activation has been observed in France, and it only works if the correspondent uses iOS 18.5 or iOS 18.6 beta.
The principle is simple: prolonged pressure on a freshly sent message, a small pencil that is displayed, and presto, you can correct your shipment – as long as you are within 15 minutes of shipment. A capacity made possible thanks to the adoption of the new Universal Profile 3.0 standard.
On Android, the editing function of a RCS message allows you to modify a text after sending: the message edited is displayed separately, with an “edited” mention, without replacing the original. A tab of detail keeps the trace of the two versions. © Android Authority – Partial reproduction for illustration purposes, all rights reserved.
But everything is not very clear yet. On the Android side, everything is going well. On the iPhone side, on the other hand, the corrected text does not replace the original: it appears as a new message, accompanied by an asterisk. And for the moment, it is impossible on the iPhone side to make the opposite path: you still cannot modify a message sent to an Android mobile.
In other words, the function exists, but its integration is still partial. Google has obviously started a progressive deployment (A/B testing) with some, without official calendar for generalization. Apple, for its part, remains silent on a possible update of its App Messages to better interpret these modifications.
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