iOS 18.2—Today’s iPhone Update Is Bad News For Google Users

iOS 18.2 Opens a Pandora’s Box for Messaging: More Bad News for Google

Apple’s long-awaited iOS 18.2 update arrived with a surprise for users: the ability to change default messaging and calling apps. In a time when the FBI is urging users to consider more “single vendor” messaging services, Apple’s timing was seamless. While the whole world debated the FBI’s messages about avoiding SMS and using encrypted options (likely influenced by a wave of Chinese hacking news), this change in iOS, long foreseen but never expected.

Apple’s move inadvertently throws much needed attention on these three systems: Apple’s own iMessage (naturally encrypted)

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The FBI warned tens of millions of users on day one. Suddenly, Apple Messaging was more of an

option, while Google found itself thrust into the limelight for all the wrong reasons, according to leading industry voices like the blog Daring Fireball

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