iOS 18 RCS Messaging for iPhone is Here! | A Complete Guide!

[@jebaker2]

I would love Apple to make RCS a different color bubble. Doesn’t need to be iMessage blue bubble… even a different shade of green to make it clear your in RCS.

[@corvacopia]

Yeah, I think a different shade of green would be nice

[@DJMathis291]

I was thinking the same thing, different shade of green

[@dominic.j]

Why though? The green is the color of messages, blue was only added for iMessage.

[@micahgarnett1924]

I agree, at least like purple or teal or, as you said a different shade of green

[@yoshiiyanishimura1244]

Well the idea is that rcs will completely replace sms right? So the same color bubble won’t matter at the end of the day.

[@udoingthemost]

Apple should’ve BEEN supporting RCS! The fact it took this long is ridiculous.

[@dominic.j]

When should they have added it? Google really stared using it in late 2019 early 2020, so 4 years isn't that long.

[@Axyierl]

@@dominic.j Google has been developing it for eons and it's been a thing on phone since like 2010s. They just started REALLY pushing it for the last 4 years

[@dominic.j]

@@Axyierl This not true at all. The GSMA developed RCS in 2008. In 2015 Google bought Jibe mobile to start working on RCS for android. In 2019 Google released messages with RCS support. Google hasn't been developing it for "eons" and it's most certainly not their protocol. Y'all just make things up.

[@JonSuejoj]

Bc Tim Cook, wants you to buy an iPhone lol

[@Tim_Dunkin]

​@@dominic.j2019? I had RCS on my phone in 2016

[@callmeseags]

I think purple would be a cool color for RCS on iPhone

[@MegaCynar]

They don't want to make it cool

[@NickDrinksWater]

they want rcs without making it look like they actually added rcs

[@M16-mini]

Apple wants to support RCS as quietly as possible so that people would keep buying iphones for messaging. Apple is making it confusing on purpose as green means SMS/MMS and also RCS, they didn't even change the RCS bubble colour!!

[@tails300]

I said in another thread in an another video! 😂

[@rolins3279]

​@@MegaCynar🤝🏽

[@vin.k.k]

1.Your font size on Pixel is humongous. 2. Head over to Google messages and enable IPhone reactions.

[@301jerm]

@@vin.k.k lmao it is huge 😂😂

[@giramatamorgan1295]

I have an iPhone 15 and I have updated to iOS 18 but I don’t have any of that change in message even that RCS

[@andrehovsepian4573]

In Zollotech’s video, RCS worked for group messaging.

[@gezeo750]

Came down to the comments so say this too.

[@abc123fhdi]

what about if you're on an iPhone and then you port your number to android, but you were added to a group while you had the iPhone and now your number is on android, does it allow you to message the group still and receive messages, so you're still in the group and can send and receive as RCS?

[@feedbacker]

yeah. that other iphone prob isnt on the dev beta

[@RagingBad]

@@abc123fhdithat’s why you turn off iMessage before you move to the Android phone, you unlink your number from iMessage

[@Rivs5117]

@@abc123fhdi It should still work as long as RCS is turned on for everyone in the group chat.

[@mahendraperiyadanam3801]

1. Google Android device checks if the other (terminating) party is capable of RCS Messaging feature or not, before the originator sends the message as per design, whereas Apple being new to RCS Messaging needs to develop this feature. 2. The three dots (...) is called IsTyping indicator which tells that the other party is typing/composing a message. (In RCS, it is called IsComposing indicator) 3. The reason why Apple device loses the RCS Messaging and goes back to SMS (actually, it is not the legacy SMS over SS7 protocol but it is SMS over IP protocol or SMSoIP) is that there is a timeout of 180 Seconds (configurable by the operator) beyond which the dedicated Chat (MSRP) channel is deleted. 4. In Android device, if you press on message, it should give you when the message was delivered and displayed. (Display is called as Read by Marketing people. In RCS standards, it is called display notification, as we dont know whether the party has read the message or not ; understood or not, which is not the business of communication service provider 😀)

[@JeffPom]

Group message - I believe others have it working.

[@jasonashley9853]

Yup. Only if someone in the chat has RCS off will it revert back I believe.

[@YeetusMingus]

Nobody seems to know the answer to this: is RCS enabled by default in iOS 18 or do you need to enable it?

[@YeetusMingus]

@GOD_IS_GOOD337 That's not the question I'm asking. I want to know if it's already enabled when you update to iOS 18 or if users will need to go into their settings and turn RCS on

[@wagyu_panther]

@@YeetusMingus apple prolly gonna make it so its not, but who knows if the EU was smart enough to include it in their stipulation

[@antman9252]

When I updated it for the Beta 4, it was automatically on but if it isn’t for you just go into settings > messaging and scroll down until you see the RCS tab then you can turn it off or on

[@androidmajor1]

IDK why you enlarged the fonts on Android but not on iOS Is this intentional? (So the Android User interface looks weird) IYKYK... Update: I just saw that's your Dad's Phone... Now I get it :)

[@pranavlimaye]

I'm 22 and sometimes I blow up my UI size for ease of use, even if it looks a little funky

[@bob_smite]

I hope this comes out to the next final release! I would be finally able to send videos via text instead of uploading them to youtube first.

[@backnu]

The videos are still choppy. It'll make you trim a video. Honestly, I may have to go back to an iPhone because even RCS-RCS, it's still grainy and lower resolution.

[@whereswaldo9089]

@@backnu lol bruh it is still in beta as you can see it's not working that well but eventually will.

[@exiledfrommyself]

Both RCS and iMessage have a 100 MB limit on videos. If your video is over the limit, it's going to compress the video down to 100 MB.

[@backnu]

@@exiledfrommyself no, iMessage can accept a considerably larger video without terrible degradation.

[@exiledfrommyself]

@@backnu I didn't say anything about the quality of the video. I said the video will be compressed down to 100MB.

[@jasdosanjh952]

Will RCS on iPhone run on wifi or carrier service

[@4000Wiggins]

If I’m using RCS messaging on iPhone, should I turn off MMS messaging? Or does that matter?

[@benn4772]

Read receipts… can you turn those off on iPhone but still use RCS?

[@CecilMathew]

I wanted to know if iPhone would properly display an in-line reply sent from Android

[@phantomalex777]

i have boost mobile on my iphone and i dont think they have it yet. i dont see the rcs messaging toggle in apps settings. is there another way to get rcs? or do i have to wait for my carrier? wich means im out of luck for a while :) thanks!

[@eiseouy]

Does this work on ipad?

[@markhollis5850]

In IOS 18.0 as well as 18.01, RCS works all of the time, as long as the phone you are sending to accepts it. One does not have to send an RCS message to iPhone first; that seems to have been a “feature” in the Beta.

[@parkingthought]

🐬 did you notice that on iPadOS 18 you can manage fonts via settings?

[@JRBowling1997]

Do you think itll be on by default for everyone when ios 18 comes out in September?

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

Knowing Apple, hell no.

[@Ogotmoney]

What a time to be alive

[@RagingBad]

😒

[@Daniela-2208]

When is it coming to Canada?

[@tonyo.4226]

🐬 Nice job. I’m looking forward to the update next month. Thank you.

[@kcote617]

I am on beta 3 and I don’t have the rcs option in settings. 😢

[@ThatHz-]

What I’d like to know more than the responding features and status is encryption. Will we finally have private encrypted messages for SMS & MMS across platform?

[@vintagegenious]

@@ThatHz- SMS won't ever be secure. Use Signal for E2E encryption

[@exaltant2464]

I cant see rcs messaging in iphone 15

[@lumoslatte]

🐬🐬🐬 great video, can wait to test this

[@9to5Mac]

Thank you and Good luck!

[@John-nx8ng]

Is it only the USA it’s out on?

[@Shauryaaaa.x]

Will india get RCS in ios 18

[@hazza_007]

@@Shauryaaaa.x India is the only country that won't get it

[@moises1439]

Do you think stickers will work with RCS between iOS and Android? I love using stickers on my iPhone but I’m worried I’ll be unable to use stickers when talking to someone with androjd

[@Axyierl]

I mean android messegs supports stickers, as long as apple stops being a greedy little shh it should work

[@bradley7506]

Unfortunately RCS still seems to be carrier based and geographically based. Half my Android friends are still sms and the others are RCS….

[@David66Stang]

I would like to also see the ability to name groups on iPhone that contain Android users. 🎉

[@bizmonkey007]

Apple should make RCS messages a different color to differentiate them from SMS messages. This seems like it could create a lot of confusion. I get why Apple wants to keep the green bubbles from a business standpoint but this isn’t good for users.

[@Jose-Luis.Garnica-Sanchez]

At the very least make them light vs dark green

[@NickDrinksWater]

Apple: Known for being abnormally late to the game, every time lol

[@dominic.j]

4 years is not that long, that's how it took google to add RCS to Android after they bought Jibe Mobile. Also, there is no feature that RCS has that iMessage hasn't had since 2011. RCS is strictly about improving communication between Android and Apple devices, it adds nothing to Apple device to Apple device communication.

[@GavinTheGoose]

@@dominic.j well people on the Android side haven been using apps like WhatsApp to communicate. If you think about it, iMessage is just like WhatsApp but developed by Apple themselves. RCS is just a replacement for SMS which was getting old and kind of useless for modern use.

[@the_b1g_0ne]

🐬 Gif with a hard G because it stands for Graphical so it gets pronounced like graphical. If it stood for something like giraffe, then I'd pronounce it like the peanut butter, but Jiff is already taken.

[@corvacopia]

Do you pronounce Scuba or Laser like how what each letter stands for is pronounced, or is that just a rule for Gif?

[@the_b1g_0ne]

@@corvacopia Yes. The first S in scuba stands for Self (same sound) and the L in laser is light (same sound) what’s your point???

[@lonnieswaggerty1987]

🐬 Excellent coverage! I hope the kinks get worked out over the next couple of months but at least I can use these workarounds.

[@santiangocifuentes9858]

Really good video!!

[@9to5Mac]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jessechristman1471]

It's about time

[@MrJamidon]

What keyboard case is that in the upper right of the video frame?

[@9to5Mac]

Clicks Keyboard. Review coming this week

[@devarshdave1917]

I say it as gif and not gif

[@ladle3000]

same. I used to say gif, but now I say gif

[@BryanKalloo]

But its still weird that it still showed 😂 to the "Hi" even that its on sms when google adapted to that awhile ago

[@micahgarnett1924]

Probably has the option to translate emoji from iPhone off

[@katlyncarter8890]

I have mine updated to iOS 18 rc n it doesn’t show up on my iPhone 😢

[@NomadOutdoorAdventures]

So far it’s not working in Canada, hoping that next beta version will activate RCS. I would love to see that here in Canada.

[@friedcatfood]

That's up to your carrier, not Apple.

[@callmeNeno]

Just get an iPhone dude! It’s not going anywhere lol😅

[@ryanc9888]

@@friedcatfood it works with Bell in Canada

[@Channel-iu7rn]

Does RCS still work on the iPhone if you disable Wi-Fi calling (if already enabled), put phone into airplane mode, and then turn wifi back on and connect. Can RCS messages still be sent in this scenario?

[@hilmyakatsuki1665]

nope it will in pending without internet access and wait for reconnect. but you can also send as sms in that situation

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

I think RCS is carrier dependant.

[@gphillimo]

The biggest complaint hasn't been bubble color, it's been apple making photos/videos sent from Android phones look like they were taken with a potato. I'm gonna stay on Samsung always and i refuse to buy an iPhone

[@gregryglinski9820]

bruh! recently swapped to a galaxy z fold 6, clients are sending me videos that look like crap, driving me insane

[@ovrxpsd]

​@@gregryglinski9820yep, it sucks. MMS is such old technology. i think it was created in like 2002 and apple has been forcing androids to use it when trying to send videos between each other. a nice tactic to get people to get tired of it and just switch to iPhone. that's why I'm so excited for RCS support because I prefer Android over iPhone. the solution I've been using is setting up a Blue bubbles server on my Mac to be able to use iMessage on my android.

[@enzmondo]

What does it look like when you try to react to an RCS with any emoji outside of the hard-coded reactions that come with RCS? Like reacting with a flag emoji to an RCS, does it show up like a normal reaction or does it say “Reacted with [flag emoji]” like it used to pre-iOS 18?

[@Jose-Luis.Garnica-Sanchez]

Google programmed iPhone reactions to be translated so those outside of the usual tap backs may lead to issues until Google addresses these changes. Apple is maliciously complying which is why they also added genmojis to make it an impossible task for Google to fix

[@defnotatroll]

whyd you make the font on the pixel so huge lol

[@singh.navjeet]

Is RCS messaging free? Means is there any carrier charges apply like SMS and MMS? It does require cellular data and WIFI but is it free (like iMessages, signal etc)?

[@meroinheroin]

It doesn't count against SMS if you don't have an unlimited plan but you do need an active plan to use RCS

[@olawale_o.t.d]

🐬🐬 nice video man...

[@9to5Mac]

Thanks for the visit

[@aaronlimitless]

I would people complaining about RCS not working on their phone apparently didn’t bother with. It literally said it only works in the United States right now and only our Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.

[@drdrew3]

It’s called BETA release for a reason

[@aaronlimitless]

@@drdrew3 yep, that’s what I said

[@owomushi_vr]

Welcome to 2019 iphone users. Way to catch up slowly

[@mastixencounter]

It does nothing for iPhone users lol. iMessage is still better

[@DBRWN]

Got beta 2 update and for some reason I’m back on 18.0 version smh.

[@Jay92925]

I thought the saying is be all end all not end all be all?

[@mikebull7775]

Finally ! Nice review !!

[@suzanner3894]

Had to reset my network settings to get it to work with my son’s Samsung Galaxy (who had to turn on his RCS

[@salvadorr4727]

I've been waiting for this day. I'll finally switch to iPhone when the 16 comes out

[@maximusg88]

Shouldn't this be a reason to switch to android? 😂

[@salvadorr4727]

@@maximusg88 not for me, I stayed on android for RCS

[@michaeldodd9671]

What about PDF? Can you send those. MMS won't even allow those.

[@Chris-dw3xl]

Some are sent as rcs and others sent as sms I’m on 18.6 public beta not sure what’s going but what I’ve tried at home on my sons phone one pixel 8 other Motorola g54 both messages come up as rcs but when message a friend which I do know he as a Samsung device it comes up with sms just plain odd 😮

[@damont4204]

maybe your samsung friend doesn`t have rcs enabled. it is not enabled by default on android as far as i know. i have lots of samsung friends that don t have the rcs enabled

[@Chris-dw3xl]

@@damont4204 what I understand now that it’s only default on google messaging app but I could be wrong cheers

[@Max86421]

RCS ❤️

[@adrian09166]

Why doesn't anyone test voice messages? 😢

[@RealWelKon]

There's a bug making it that it goes on and off

[@daleknek]

I like how this is not marketed enough. If this works as intended then most people won’t need to rely much on third party apps for chatting. Being an ex android user, RCS was a huge convenience for me. Now I am a sole iPhone user in my family and I have to constantly rely on Messenger and WhatsApp to communicate. The only thing missing now is video calls across iOS and Android devices using their native dedicated apps. And sorry to the tech bros, but I am tired of buggy a*s chat applications that only serve Ads

[@ronaldferrell292]

As of July 9th spectrum Moble is working now

[@Jhoodemcee]

It’s still not working well 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Mista300c]

Typin 🐬 with yall

[@mshoneyy]

i cannot believe RCS wont work with group messaging...that's where it's most needed group SMS gets so messy

[@CatherineReams-g9e]

Weimann Cape

[@bar7381]

I feel like apple is intentionally having messages switch between RCS and MMS, making Imessage look better in the process

[@bellringer007]

🐬 excellent vid. Great info

[@RoyMaurice-p4e]

D'Amore Lights

[@yamil.343]

Panthers!! 🏆

[@theunbreakable6352]

SMS is enabled. Disable it and only use RCS.

[@RobSnow-ui4sz]

RCS is it encrypted ? iMessage is end-to-end encrypted.

[@InteristaS5]

I doubt it. I could be wrong but I believe RCS still uses cellular data to actually push the message while iMessage connects to the Internet. iMessage is essentially a 3rd party app (like Whatsapp or telegram) but it obviously remains exclusive to iPhones. My best guess is that RCS is not end to end encrypted

[@RobSnow-ui4sz]

@@InteristaS5 Yea so this is why RCS won't fly if it is not end to end. The European union should have pushed harder for it to be a part of the blue bubble conversation. Apple is simply playing along and still touting end to end encryption with iMessage.

[@globesnow6377]

IT'S STILL GREEN ,, NOOOO

[@MargeretPark-u4t]

Okuneva Overpass

[@FlyGuyKai23]

Is this only working on iPhone 15s?

[@darth_kal-el]

No. It’s working on any iPhone running iOS 18 Beta 2 in the US.

[@WhittierVictoria]

642 Gorczany Crossing

[@SusannaLawrence-q3g]

Gail Tunnel

[@sjtworld9447]

What is difference with WhatsApp? I mean as purpose of it.

[@Twins2fly2]

They should have automatic one everyboy won't even know we have this

[@carlos53k]

Thank you for the video example... First review to show an example in a video and not just mention it or just do a photo example.

[@Letstrevel]

Not available in Spain on beta 2

[@Tisakoreann]

Bro from Jersey

[@StariusPrime]

Watched the whole video and I still don't really know what RCS is. Is it Android version of Messages?

[@9to5Mac]

It’s basically a standard of messaging that allows for more things to be done like reactions, full resolution images and videos, works off of WiFi etc.

[@StariusPrime]

@@9to5Mac Nice, it does sound like a great alternative to offload as much of that stuff to wifi as possible, when it's available. 👍

[@darth_kal-el]

@@StariusPrimeit’s the standard developed by the GSMA to replace SMS/MMS.

[@tomsam1314]

There are websites that have access to vast amounts of data, they're called search engines. Google is peoples go to... try it.

[@aaronlimitless]

It’s just enhanced version of SMS to be more like iMessage so you can see or reading your message when they are responding. You can send better video files photos, etc. pretty much just like iMessage messenger etc. for android just SMS is old standard. RCS is a new standard. Think of SMS a.k.a. text messaging as analog and RCS and iMessage is Digital.

[@TovarEndwy]

I was able to add an iPhone person to a group. Three android phones and one iPhone person.

[@ThatHz-]

GIF is GIF, it’s not peanut butter (JIF)

[@jonatoieri]

If you find green bubbles confusing just disable MMS messaging and you won’t pay any additional fee for services you didn’t want. Nobody needs rainbow bubbles for RCS if everybody knows how to manage settings.

[@HousmanCeleste-m8s]

Mac Dale

[@burrito-town]

I pronounce it “GIF”

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

Finally 🎉

[@sahilsvision]

Color should be teal!

[@DtyfhuDgusgj-c3x]

Wolf Shoals

[@PullanZebulon-w8p]

Cummerata Stravenue

[@cjtaylor4459]

🐬

[@ConradBess-w9t]

Rutherford Mews

[@MackintoshCarl-m4s]

Johnson Cliff

[@GaryV-p3h]

Welcome to the 21st century. Better late than never.

[@BurneJonesFitch-t1q]

Fannie Path

[@AliciaEllison-h4c]

Meagan Underpass

[@JeskidoYT]

One big quirk is that since apple announced any picture or any emoji as a reaction to a message, it completely breaks RCS. Now we have to wait on google to integrate those features as micro MMS pictures

[@kun00]

No it doesn't. Google messages can already use any emojis as reaction

[@tomsam1314]

It's a dev beta... meaning it's not fully baked yet.