RCS on Android and iPhone : EVERYTHING you can do!

[@planetminecraft411]

I was able to convince a friend of mine who has an iPhone to upgrade to IOS 18 almost immediately. As a result, both of us are enjoying a much better texting experience over RCS.

[@fr3shSwag]

Friends don't let friends chat MMS

[@micha3624]

signal, what's app, telegram. Any of these are better than rcs.

[@passivevii4052]

So you made sure they can never jailbreak the phone ever such a good friend

[@driver8703]

@@passivevii4052the average person doesn’t care about jail breaking a iPhone, only super super technical folks do

[@TreyHam27]

@@passivevii4052all right dude…. Most people never jailbreak anyways.

[@Jack908r]

Good news to have the added texting options. But if I ran into someone who cared about the bubble colour, I wouldn't bother with them.

[@GuloGulo420]

But they're EVERYWHERE. This at least makes them seem even more ridiculous since media and group chats work properly now.

[@vlad.7]

Dude they are brainwashed lol , what the heck

[@MrLifeline01]

@@GuloGulo420They’re Not “EVERYWHERE “… The West (especially the US) isn’t “EVERYWHERE “…. Only kids care about bubble color & those kids reside in the West. Major parts of the world don’t even use IMessages 😂, I myself don’t use it, there are other far better ways of texting.

[@Wavs-b4k]

​@@MrLifeline01 maybe he wasn't referring to/cared about where you were from?

[@MrLifeline01]

@@Wavs-b4k The reason why he’s saying everywhere is because of his environment, so he’s basically assuming that it’s same in other parts of the world,so I know for sure the category of people that cares about bubble color are in the US majorly. You only hear such complaints from Americans, other parts of the world don’t even use IMessage; WhatsApp & telegram exists for a reason.

[@dpt17]

I've been hounding all of my relatives who like to make group chats to install iOS 18 asap. RCS is so much nicer than MMS.

[@donotneed2250]

I can't stand group chats. Maybe the people who send them aren't using it properly but I quickly got tired my phone going off whenever someone responded to a message.🤦🏽‍♂️

[@micha3624]

better than nothing. Long overdue. But still 10 years behind all instant chat apps

[@dpt17]

@@micha3624 What's been frustrating for many years is having to explain to family members that Apple refused to participate in this solution and therefore I was refusing to reward them with business a la Tim Cook's "Oh tell her to get an iPhone" nonsense.

[@GeeksGets]

​@@donotneed2250 that's your preference 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@passivevii4052]

@@dpt17so telling them to do it so they can never jailbreak the phone interesting

[@Vndrew_ARW]

Call me crazy, but how can anyone not love that display on the P9P? Just seeing them side by side it looks so good.

[@9to5Google]

It's sick, right?

[@Abmarp]

I agree

[@pyrokamileon]

Green has just always seemed to be Android's mascot color, I've never minded being branded as the green phone user. but then again my smartphone days began after I was out of high school already so I guess I don't really understand that kind of negative stigma 🤷🏽

[@IDontModWTFz]

"it's a symbol of power" it's the symbol of a sheep

[@Lastskykey]

I’m a iPhone user and I never realized this is a thing. I have rarz 2024 plus as my selfie phone and decided to use it as my main recently

[@Hiddeny.2044]

Agreed, I actually always hated and still hate the green iMessage icon on the iPhone.

[@sacredsoul2254]

I was branded the green bubble goddess lmao I don't mind at all

[@mrapollo_17]

If you find green bubbles "embarrassing" your probably in highschool

[@Uploaded_Period]

Very true. Everyone in my high school talks abt the colors smh

[@Uploaded_Period]

Everyone in my highschool actually cares abt colors lol. Ur very accurate. If u see this twice it's cuz it didn't look like my other comment posted

[@Everything2A]

I think ‘embarrassing’ is the wrong word, annoying? yes There’s nothing more annoying than one person in a group chat has to have a freaking android and ruins it for everyone.

[@BurritoKingdom]

And that's the worst time to get Bullied. High schoolers are the easiest to succumb to peer pressure. They'll force their parents to buy them an iPhone and be stuck in the Apple ecosystem the rest of their lives. Apple knows what they're doing. Or more tragically the bullying would lead to dire consequences.

[@jorgenavarrete5369]

It’s super embarrassing seeing a green bubble get your money up not your funny up and get an iPhone.

[@sankaranarayanan616]

Petty iPhone users will always persist. But hey, this way, you'll easily know the idiots you need to avoid like the plague.

[@mikewolf5367]

Yup. They’re called Android users 😂

[@IDontModWTFz]

⬆️⬆️⬆️here's one to avoid guys

[@jumbomuffin1316]

Or get an iPhone or sit tf down

[@GoldnPea]

Two people to avoid now, the first and third

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

​@@mikewolf5367dude you need to grow up

[@johnathanblade1]

If you send video as media, from Android it defaults to SD quality and from IOS the video sends at 720p. The Android work around it to send the video as a file. It populates the chat as though it was sent as media. The 100 meg file limit is the constraint. About 10 seconds for 4k and 25-ish seconds for 1080p. While RCS between Android and IOS doesn't support E2EE, it does support encryption in transport (HTTP-TLS-SSL) which is more than the nothing that SMS/MMS supports.

[@daniesmar]

I've heard the GSMA is working on introducing encryption on the RCS Universal Profile standard. I think Google pushed for it some time ago but had to do it on it's own (using the Signal protocol) and now that Apple has been forced to implement RCS, they've declined to use Google's non-standard E2EE and pushed for a standard-wide solution; so hopefully it'll get fixed soon

[@RyanSmith-hi2nv]

Such a welcomed update that is finally here. This has greatly improved my experience both between Androids and between iPhone and Androud.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

Literally the only people I ever hear bring up blue vs green bubbles are influencers/youtubers/commenters calling it dumb. Normal people really don’t care.

[@turbotising4161]

This, most people do not care, they will text each other regardless green to blue or blue to green, but I guess some people are unfortunate to run into people who won’t text over a message color.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

@@turbotising4161 the only times I’ve seen people care is when they have better alternatives, like using discord, WhatsApp, etc instead, or they put a lot of weight on privacy / security. Both of which are entirely valid reasons that KZbinrs and anti-Apple people just love to distill down to blue bubble elitism.

[@chidianuforo3670]

The restrictiveness of Apple is too extreme. How does anyone like this? All the issues with messaging seem to all be Apples's doing and they purposely made messaging worse for everyone, all for the sake of profits.

[@skaterboi65]

Literally

[@imjamf]

keep in mind RCS is kinda new. if google adopted and pushed carriers to support it earlier, this wouldn't be such a big problem nowadays

[@_WF23]

Wrong- it’s the main reason why most people prefer iPhone - iMessage

[@jolynele2587]

@@_WF23 most people *in the us*, sure

[@livedreamsg]

​@@_WF23 I feel like you're both saying the same things. The only reason iMessage even got so popular is because for YEARS, Apple refused to support RCS; they had to be forced. If they had added RCS years ago, fewer Android users would've switched over just to get access to iMessage.

[@HaZyDaKiD]

My fantasy football group chat is a mess because half of us have android and half have iphone. This is huge for us. Arguments have broke out because of messages being received out of order or not received at all. LOL

[@ElMartilloBlanco]

9:36 Some people are just douchebags. There's literally no reason NOT to use RCS if it's available to you, because your messages between Android and iOS are already not encrypted. But even though they're not encrypted yet, the overall experience will be better with RCS. They're just intentionally making the experience worse to stroke their elitist complex.

[@dasprii7703]

Thankfully, people like that are exactly the type of people I don't want to associate with, thus, nothing of value is lost.

[@GlitterGuru]

To clarify if you send a video over 100mb it automatically compresses and sends? What happens if you try to send a file that’s over 100mb, will it fail to send?

[@atehrani]

Google Messages prevents you from sending the video unless you trim it

[@the_garniiics]

Sucks that they got rid of the automatic link to Google photos ​@@atehrani

[@Qiqi_Kuchisabishii]

On iPhone you just can't send it. Tried with audio file.

[@mantoniogz]

I can't believe people with the audacity to turn off RCS on their iPhone! Or people who refuse to update because of it 😡

[@HOTSPURTAKES]

It's insane and funny as well 😂

[@AyAy008]

I don't think most Apple users even know what RCS is 💀

[@mantoniogz]

@@AyAy008 fr

[@IDontModWTFz]

They prefer to be vulnerable but what can us Android users do. Laugh when they're on HIBP

[@jumbomuffin1316]

I turned it off cuz it made my bubbles green 🙃. We have no reason to change something because it’s an inconvenience for android fanboys.

[@Chertograad]

As an Android user who tried this out with an iPhone user, we have RCS enabled and we're not using SMS, but for some reason I keep seeing "Laughed at a movie" or "Laughed at an image" instead of reactions. Not sure why that is. And before you ask, I do have the toggle for "iPhone reactions as emojis" set to "on". Doesn't work.

[@lightwashlevis]

This is because Apple supports universal profile 2.4 instead of 2.7 which is what Google is on. So they don't have all the functionality that we have still

[@Chertograad]

@@lightwashlevis Ahh so that might be coming in the future? Sweet!

[@lightwashlevis]

@@Chertograad hopefully...but I wouldn't hold my breath. Apple is probably just trying to do the bare minimum to get around regulators. But maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised later

[@sushimshah2896]

I can see reactions oo my messages from my cousin who uses an iPhone though🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lightwashlevis]

@@sushimshah2896 but not for pictures and videos. It only works on messages

[@LNCRFT]

I guess this is very region dependent as over here in Europe, regardless of what device you’re using, WhatsApp is the way to go for most people to chat, so it’s by far not as much of a pain to focus on here than it is for many Americans who are primarily using iMessage or RCS when they’re on Android.

[@sushimshah2896]

Very true, pretty sure everywhere in the world except US (and assuming Canada), people use some IM app - be it WA, Tele, Signal, FB/Insta messenger, Line, Wechat, etc. It's only the US that's still stuck in the SMS age I believe! But it's still good to be able to now chat with relatives there who install WhatsApp but barely use it.

[@LNCRFT]

@@sushimshah2896 I feel you on that one. Like over here, grocery stores offer their shopping prospects via WhatsApp and when you wanna text someone, it's also mainly via WhatsApp only.

[@vintagegenious]

Use signal

[@MiltonCorbin]

I think it's crazy to update your software and NOT activate RCS. So for the ppl who you text with Androids, do you understand that it's still NOT secure? So this means not only are you refusing to evolve but you refuse to enhance your text long experience with ppl outside of Apple...but will most likely still complain that they have Android 😔🤨😒

[@lukchem]

There are also a lot of Android Users without RCS. I just went through my contacts again and a few of them also show „Text Message - SMS“

[@JrBoi12]

@@lukchem Yeah some are still using a messaging application that doesnt support RCS. I just got my dad off the Messages+ app and onto Google Messages so he has RCS. You just have to get them to use one that supports RCS or just use google messages (will eventually be the default messaging app on android).

[@MiltonCorbin]

@@lukchem Yeah I know...I've been trying to get those in my camp who don't do RCS to switch but they refuse for NO reason...they are like they don't care that much about how stuff comes in or being able to have the extra features 🙄😞

[@josephmessere7617]

Apple users are like two year old don't know any better

[@vintagegenious]

​@@MiltonCorbin I have friends who refuse RCS because SMS doesn't require Wifi/Cellular and is therefore more reliable

[@mwsbs]

3:31 on iOS, read receipts can also be turned on/off per contact In the message thread, click the contacts name/icon on top of the screen and toggle Send Read Receipts on/off

[@bankruptsee]

I am inches away from trading my iPhone 15 pro max in for a pixel 9 pro fold now that RCS is on iOS. Only problem is the price.. might still pull the trigger

[@fhreire]

Just come to the right side of life.

[@sushimshah2896]

So just a wild assumption based on what you've written, you probably (maybe reluctantly) switched over to iOS (from Android) to be part of their group, and now want to shift back?

[@rikuhelminen]

So why we have whatsapp anymore? For privacy we have signal. Telegram is trash based on the last days news.

[@micha3624]

RCS is carrier dependent. RCS is still closer to bland SMS than real internet chats. Multi device support. Backups. probably more

[@vkAwesomee]

telegram is the best. just tell me why they are not chasing signal like telegram. simple answer they are already cooperative

[@rikuhelminen]

@@vkAwesomee Telegram is not fully foss, and not fully encrypted so they have responsible in law when there is criminal activity. Simply signal doesnt collect so mutch information that no one would even know if there is criminal activity.

[@rikuhelminen]

@@vkAwesomee Signal has nothing info to give.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

What's wrong with having multiple options? Are you upset because people have more choices?

[@aaronarmendariz8357]

Awesome video sending it to my contacts now cause the apple fan don't know anything about RCS ....

[@justinadams6167]

Recently I started using an iPhone to get some use out of my son's unused apple watch. My wife basically made me switch because I wanted a pixel watch and she said we already have a watch for me to use. With rcs on iPhone now at least I can text to my wife on her pixel and it's much nicer than just sms. Rest assured this is a temporary situation and I will be getting a pixel watch and a new pixel phone down the road lol😂

[@Rivs5117]

I'm rocking the Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel Watch 3 45mm 🔥🔥 combo

[@AAmxs]

best thing about rcs is, its not locked to just pixel, every android that is up to date can use this feature

[@navjotsingh3888]

Thank you for this video! Much needed.

[@megasxlr22]

Fun fact: the three iPhones in our 14+ people group chat aren’t the problem. Nor are the pixels. Samsung needs the planets to align just right, the torch must be lit and delivered to the mountain up high by midnight whilst passing several tests of wit/courage, and finally, you need to wait for samsung to communicate with your carrier to turn on RCS in samsung messages because it’s the default on samsung devices which is changing but it’s absolutely hilarious because it causes friction on the android side and not iOS. My how the turn tables 😂. Rcs has been wonderful though. I just wish everyone in my group chat would finally be able to get rcs working so we can enjoy a much nicer experience.

[@soumalya]

Thats why I switched the the default messages app to google message in my galaxy device. But I have to say one thing. I like the Samsung messages UI better

[@megasxlr22]

@@soumalya that’s why I don’t wanna push the samsung users in our chat over to google messages. If they like what they got, it won’t be fair but samsung will eventually force them from what I understand. It’s just hilarious to me that google fought apple for so long on this and its samsung who’s the biggest issue of all lol.

[@mstrax0258]

​@megasxlr22 Well that's unfortunate for them as Samsung is discontinuing the support of SMessage in favour of the Gmessages that is now the default on Samsung devices. Apparently they did so to speed up the RCS switch as with Gmessage you don't need the carrier to support them since they directly go through Google's Jibe backend and thus also support E2E encryption. We can only hope that Samsung manages to get Gmessages code to make "their version" like it was for Samsung Internet that is based on chromium

[@lilygirllisa]

The only thing they need to add now is samsung themes to google messages.

[@sikwithin]

One thing ive noticed is that iphone users will sometimes send messages over sms or mms which will create new group chats. Ive even had an instance where iphone users were messaging to the group but I wasnt seeing the messages because they were over imessage. Its a start but theres still alot of issues.

[@JerodCazes]

Awesome video. Thanks for the info!

[@MaximumWaves]

Replies seem to not be ready yet either. I have also convinced some family and friends to update and it's been so nice 😭 DOWN WITH SMS

[@DmanDaGr8]

We're slowly but surely breaking that android vs iOS wall down, and I'm loving it ❤

[@FaZaFurhod]

if an Android user is in an RCS group chat with a bunch of other iPhones, then typing indicators is turned off

[@timefel]

Reactions are NOT supported by iOS yet. What you and everyone else is seeing is the classic iPhone reaction hack Google implemented (and for some it works on iOS if the language is correct). iOS does still only send the reaction out as a normal message, which is being parsed by Google Messages (if possible, e.g. doesn‘t really work on media). 6:26

[@Hiddeny.2044]

Finally I can properly text most people with an android. There are still some people whose phones are either too old or they won’t/ can’t figure out how to turn on RCS. WTH!

[@FaZaFurhod]

"sometimes you won't see typing indicators until a message has already been received, then subsequent indicators are gonna be visible to you" what do you mean by this?

[@Angel-HC]

A rare sight to see Apple make such a pro-consumer move. Though let's be honest, they probably only did this to try to stay off the radar of legislators and regulators. Though I'm still happy to have a higher quality texting experience with my Android friends.

[@jesusnavarrete6317]

I told the group chat to turn it on and it's way better lol

[@JonSuejoj]

I'm surprised they even did it

[@TheZzzleep...]

1:40 Not so sure about that. There's an option on Advanced Settings of Google Messages to set if you want it to indicate (via icon) if a SMS was delivered. I turned it on because I was having dropped texts randomly with a friend on another carrier. Seemed to even solve the issue. Why would Google have a SMS-specific setting if it weren't supported? We will be switching to RCS once both our carriers support it.

[@Pixeltalkz]

Damn that bezel of iphone is just awesome 🥰

[@josephmessere7617]

Are you talking about the bathtub on the screen

[@Pixeltalkz]

@@josephmessere7617 🤣

[@AJMarraffa]

So it seems like RCS provides a lot of features that were only available on Apple's iMessage. Pretty awesome!

[@bigfellamike1913]

Nah, apples late to the party

[@_WF23]

If you both only have wifi - 1 iPhone, 1 Android, will text messages still go through, via RCS?

[@mosemister]

In my experience (my carrier doesnt support it .... But wifi shouldnt require the carrier) .... No, it still gets sent as sms

[@JrBoi12]

@@mosemister Your carrier needs to support RCS for you to send RCS messages on iPhone. If you have android and your carrier doesnt support it, you can use Google Messages and it will backdrop to Google Jibe and allow RCS otherwise you are in the same situation as the iPhone until your carrier supports RCS.

[@KGTv123]

Depends on your carrier. I have mint mobile and there is no RCS messaging on my iPhone

[@turtlepieces]

As an iPhone user, I dint use the extra crap that iMessage has. I really only use video,photo and voice messages. Not to mention I only use the default text app when talking to my android people.

[@bhaskarraomunjeti]

In the Google keyboard, which theam are you used in this video. I need that Google keyboard theam which you use

[@Ebenelsahra]

Thank you bro

[@bradavon]

EE in the UK gives you a "text has been delivered"

[@mosemister]

The Carrier part is the biggest hurdle for my social group. My wife owns an iphone yet her carrier doesnt support it. The carrier has been quite on the subject too whereby only mention of it is on the forums, people stating they work for the carrier say its in the works

[@amaliaarango3068]

RCS not on my settings , I am using an iPhone 15 pro max , any suggestions ? Living in belize

[@spmighty]

Happy to still be using RCS in samsung messages

[@wahyudiadisyahputra8429]

Good for you, but i can't, RCS status ON, my number correct and connected, but on type box just SMS not RCS 🥲

[@DMcDaniel1984]

It's too bad the read indicators and typing indicators do not work in group chats with iPhone and Android users.

[@sacredsoul2254]

Sometimes if I send in RCS text the message doesn't send then it will ask me to send SMS? Just upgraded my android so learning any info would help 😊

[@jahst52]

Will this work if people already have an iMessage group chat or do you have to make a whole new group chat?

[@islamicpagz]

IS THAT ONLY FOR EUROPE OR EVERYWHERE PLEASE REPLY 😢😢

[@AyAy008]

Still not working for a lot of people, despite being in the US, updated to iOS 18, on a supported carrier and all that.

[@maccross7391]

This feature currently isn't working on certain carriers. It is. It was in the beginning and then it stopped. So I think something between the time that the feature was fully integrated with iPhone and starting to work between the two Android and iPhone. Something fell off on the Android side because a lot of people I spoke with they were able to use it and now it doesn't even work between Android users let alone iPhone and Android users. Hopefully they will come up with a fix soon because on my phone it says I'm connected via RCs but any text that I send sends as a SMS

[@wardiajang-rx3eq]

I think some android users didn't aware that RCS messages default on Google messages, like you using pixel phone you just need to check on setting same like nothing phone. Brand like Samsung phone and the others they have separated messages app which need to download Google message and activate theRCS messages on the setting and make as default messages app.

[@LukeEmbley]

That Pixel Keyboard? What theme is that? I don’t have that on my GBoard.

[@MaxPower-11]

This statement: “There is no encryption for Android to iPhone RCS messaging and vice-versa” is inaccurate. There is no _end-to-end_ encryption when using RCS between Android and iPhone. However, there is encryption in transit.

[@thisisbup]

The line between Apple and Android in texting is becoming WAY thinner. Pretty good, as everyone is benefitted.

[@debajyotisaha6319]

In my s21 fe, everything works fine except the voice notes, which keep buffering and don't get downloaded. I've tried everything like uninstalling the app, reinstalling it again, and resetting the network settings, but it just doesn't work. Could you please help me with this? Can't figure out the issue

[@alonzofields5797]

Has anyone had issues with reactions on videos? I don’t believe that the iOS update allows that, as of right now. It still shows up like an additional text

[@DiegoSalinas9]

Globally or just in US?

[@cutthroatgen]

how do i get my rcs to say "connected" status in the message setting . mine just says "setting up" and wont get off of it

[@louishiggins8881]

RCS requires WiFi or mobile data, on Android at least there is an option to still send the message via SMS if the recipient doesn't have this available. I had complaints that messages weren't getting thro' because of this - this option is switched off by default 😂. RCS is good but not perfect.

[@defnotatroll]

yeah that is a huge downside. there are lots of places where people don't have access to wifi, so you might send a text that never gets received, and in my country sending SMS texts is expensive

[@franksilvia3402]

It automatically switches. My wife has an android and I have iPhone. When I’m in a bad reception area it switches to sms.

[@vintagegenious]

Why do SMS/RCS group chats when you have Signal?

[@Mugi3840]

how did you get your keyboard that theme?

[@omkar_sawant]

replying to individual messages isn't available in iOS RCS yet

[@CarlosRuh]

Is there any way to have RCS on iOS 17?

[@winmac2565]

No.

[@turkrigg]

how do I get it from saying "textmessage SMS" to "textmessage RCS"

[@Haiwen]

Green and Blue bubbles only seems to be an issue in America, the rest of the world that mostly use Android don't care about it and Android can change the bubble colour to anything of your choosing.

[@MrG1583]

i have s24 ultra on verizon (unlocked) and RCS does not work. i have tried every tip and trick and it keeps saying setting up

[@Gimli8621]

Did you call Verizon support? I would start there, could be on their end.

[@Channel-iu7rn]

Are you on a Verizon business or government account? Verizon has recently started blocking RCS on some of these accounts.

[@StealthTH1]

You using Samsung's messaging app or google messages? On my mom's S20 ultra, we found out the Samsung Messages app does not support RCS...once we switched her to google messages, RCS lit up perfectly!

[@nicholasgianoplus3904]

Is something wrong with read receipts between iPhone and Android? I don't seem to have them. I assume both parties have to have it turned on? Also the extra compression being done by Google to media sent through Google Messages is egregious. Fix it.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

How is caring about whether messages are encrypted or not “petty”?

[@brianlaureus]

I think I’ll wait till the mashing experience is more one to one with apples. And then I might switch back to android also I’d like the Ui to be nice like apples too doesn’t have to be one to one but it looks like any run of the mill third party msg app while apples as such a nice clean aesthetic a similar look for android would be nice .

[@asura2877]

That TV background with lugia?

[@9to5Google]

Gotta catch 'em all

[@codysams2192]

My rcs was work from my android to i phone and is switched off can't get it back on it said texting with sms/mms how do I get back on?

[@pearllishels6585]

"Setting up" on my device.how to fix it?

[@heyspookyboogie644]

Been trying to get RCS to work since the initial iOS 18 beta and still (18.1 beta 5) can’t get it to work despite my plan/carrier showing support in settings, toggling it on/off, eSIM on/off, etc.

[@CyberPunkMonkey2069]

5:25 iphone users dont know what a zip file is

[@daytonaukpc9387]

Child. You don’t know what life is.

[@HM3Duncan]

right like zip files are somehow exclusive to phones

[@NuckinFuts8457]

They need to allow scheduled messages to be sent to android and not just iPhone users. My sister has an android and I have an iPhone. She can send scheduled messages to me but I cant send them to her. I need apple to get that together........ seriously

[@Soundwaiv]

Ugh, mine doesn’t rlly work very well

[@the_garniiics]

Told iPhone users to upgrade and they are showing up as RCS individually speaking but not for the GC

[@neodidi]

I really honestly can't believe this is a topic today.. It feels like the world that relies on apple have been living under the rock. I've been using RCS messaging with friends for what now.. About two years? It's just a no brainer... Infact I use it often now with close friends and family members over IM apps like WhatsApp, or signal.. It's just a no brainer.. A messages app comes with every phone out there, so it's a no brainer to see RCS a standard just as sms.. Well, better late than never.. Just surprised this is like a big news.. Lol

[@TekTheTech]

Good video, but android let's you turn off typing indicators

[@ReginaldBowie]

I don’t think it matters with carriers. Reason being almost all carriers around the world switched to Jibe and not their own.

[@exiledfrommyself]

It matters on the iPhone because the iPhone doesn't have Google's RCS client - the Messages app, which connects to Jibe on Android devices. Instead, the iPhone uses the carrier's RCS infrastructure based on the GSMA's Universal Profile.

[@ReginaldBowie]

@@exiledfrommyself No it doesn’t. Carriers DON’T have their own RCS servers. Most carriers already around the world use Jibe which is ran by Google and only them. One reason why Samsung dropped their own messaging client and have Google Messages as default. Samsung Messages was attached to carrier versions of RCS. Not to mention even Google themselves says encryption is on the way between iOS and Google Messages. If they were running carrier RCS this wouldn’t happen, or carriers would have to restart their RCS servers and work on interloping them again which people around the world have been complaining about and pushed carriers to adopt Jibe.

[@exiledfrommyself]

@@ReginaldBowie I think you should do a Google search because nothing you wrote is correct. Every major carrier in the US has its own RCS infrastructure, and that's what the iPhone uses.

[@exiledfrommyself]

@@ReginaldBowie Google encouraged carriers and Samsung to adopt its Jibe platform so they could offer features beyond the Universal Profile, such as end-to-end encryption. These features are exclusive to Android-to-Android RCS messaging. However, many of these advanced features, including encryption and enhanced group chat options, are not available when messaging iPhone users through RCS.

[@ReginaldBowie]

@@exiledfrommyself Jibe is is Google servers not their own. RCS is GSM controls Universal Profile which Jibe USES, as well as carrier versions uses. In order to work cross carrier they need to be interloped together to work. If Jibe platform was what you think it is then everything would work out of the box and we wouldn’t have issues we had the past 4 years. All carriers are doing is pointing ever to what Google servers for RCS. They are not using their own servers. Best I can tell you is Google servers is interloped with the main hub. Carriers initially were inter-carrier. When they tried connecting to the main hub there are issues(interloping). People cried about it extensively (See T-Mobile S22 series for example). Also there are other carriers had issues world wide. It was scrapped and Google took over. Carriers said download Google Messages and it said “Jibe” and not carrier. Then Google did an update which now points to their website and says PROVIDED BY GOOGLE instead of by “Carrier”. To get encryption you need to be entirely on Google servers as the main RCS hub does not support encryption. GSMA is working to standardize encryption on the main hub, but at this point Google already pretty much controls RCS except in places like China, and North Korea for example. I don’t know why people think carriers already connected to Jibe is going to maintain something just for the iPhone and work on encryption for the iPhone. Google already much said it themselves they themselves said they are working on it without using their “and partners” lingo they normally use for carriers.

[@tnmysaha]

Which gboard theme are you using?

[@beautyneytiri]

sms is annoying? gee you think, as literally NO ONE uses it anymore since the existence of snmartphones?

[@ZR1Terror]

Can you send PDF files?

[@tim.prasad03]

How did you get only known contacts to show up on Google Messages? I have so many spam contacts😭

[@johnathanperez6782]

How can i receive higher quality videos on android sent from an ios device.I toggled the (send message faster) to off and still not working

[@RhythmGamer]

Annoying this that no one i know except for a single person has RCS enabled and they’re all still SMS. I dont know if samsung does not have it enabled by default or a Verizon thing but its just a bad roll out.

[@JustinDufrene]

Apples rcs doesnt work on my companys wifi...so most people worh iphones are just turning it off altogether saying it sucks I assumed Apple would make the experience as bad as possible

[@MCCraftAdventure]

Mine still says SMS 😢 Why? It’s turned on? I’m on IOS 18 on a 16 Pro Max

[@BrianKircher1]

My read indicators do not work for those that I am talking to with iPhones. Does anyone else have that issue as well?

[@alpray4978]

Are you in a group chat? I have read elsewhere that iPhone does not support read receipts in group chats, not even for iPhone to iPhone iMessage only chats.

[@silvergriggs8952]

i wonder if RCS will get support from game pigeon!

[@TekTheTech]

Also interesting, my iPhone gets full emoji reactions not text reactions

[@AshieMC95]

And there lies the real issue "if your carrier supports RCS" Here in new Zealand, no networks here support the RCS from iphone to Android.

[@BeaconMan6000]

Now the problem with this is getting android users to enable RCS.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

It's automatic in my part of the world

[@zqmlk]

I guess we were lucky that in our country WhatsApp is the default method. Everyone is expected to have it by default on their phone no matter what. Basically a replacement to text messages at all.

[@RunMajesty]

I like being able to change my bubble color on my Ultra😂, i guess because im older thats stuff doesnt bother me

[@Jeemihawk]

Google needs to fix the messages app so replies to a group chat doesn't come in as a separate text.

[@marcelliscutler]

what about replies? I can't find any information on how this shows up on the iOS side of things.