iOS 27 Beta 2 Adds Inline Replies to iPhone-to-Android RCS Chats

iOS 27 upgrades Messages app with key new features for RCS

iOS 27 beta 2 arrived today for testing, and it includes some welcome new features for RCS conversations in the Messages app.

iOS 27 Beta 2 Adds Inline Replies to iPhone-to-Android RCS Chats

With the second beta of iOS 27, Apple added support for replying to a specific message in an RCS conversation with an Android user. You can now long press on a message to get to the option to reply, and it works the same way that it does with iMessage. Apple added support for RCS in iOS 18, and has been improving it since then. iOS 26.5 added encryption for RCS messages sent between iPhone and Android users, and now more of the RCS features are …