According to a new report, iPhones may be getting a handy feature soon that Android has also offered for several years. As spotted by 9to5Mac, iOS 18.2 could introduce a way for your iPhone to tell you how long it’ll take to charge your phone after you’ve plugged it in for a bit of juice.

According to The Verge, which discovered this quiet update, when an Android user sends a reaction to an iPhone via RCS message, the emoji displays inline instead of as a separate message. The same goes for when an iPhone user reacts to a message sent from an Android.

How I see it: On Android (and previous on iPhones) this depicts a hammer hitting a head. On iPhone, it's a frying pan with a mid-cooking egg in it. I assume this is changed for similar reasons to the iPhone gun emoji being turned into a water pistol, but it's such a beautifully specific alternative that raises more questions than it answers.

According to iOS 18.2 beta 2 code, iPhones may soon start displaying the estimated time needed to fully charge the battery.

A new update has finally closed the gap in cross-platform messaging, as Android reactions are now showing up properly on iPhones. Previously, when an Android user reacted to a mes

With the launch of iOS 18, Apple added support for RCS, or Rich Communication Services. RCS replaces SMS/MMS as the default messaging standard