# Google message and the RCS

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-message-and-the-rcs/15388
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2023-12-04T22:09:17Z
**Posts:** 11
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## Post 7 by @dngray — 2023-12-05T06:11:55Z

> [@xe3](#):
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> Google to Samsung or Samsung to Samsung RCS will not be E2EE

On that note Samsung are replacing their application with Google Messages.

[https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-galaxy-s22-us/](https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-galaxy-s22-us/)

and they have a help guide on it:

> **[Change the default messaging app on your Galaxy phone](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10001947/)**
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> When it comes to texting, your Galaxy phone has a few different options. You?ll just need to make your sure your desired app is set as the default messaging app.

> [@xe3](#):
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> So it really comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils. Do you want an open source app you can trust that uses a form of communication you can’t trust, or do you want an app you can’t trust from a company you can’t trust but where at least some % of your conversations would be E2EE. What matters most to you?

In this specific case it’s either a case of open source and no E2EE which equals no privacy, or Google’s Messages /w RCS and E2EE for users which also have it, so there is some privacy there.

Open source SMS applications give no privacy on a network where the carrier sees and can do anything with your messages anyway.

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