Apple's Promised RCS Upgrade Still Not Implemented in iOS 26 Beta

[insomniac86]

RCS on iOS goes through Jibe network, that's because most, if not every carrier at this point have defaulted to using Google Jibe network.
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Sorry I should have been clearer...
The carrier has to have an agreement with Google to use their servers. They can't just set Jibe as the server value in the carrier profile.

I've edited my original post to clarify.

 

[insomniac86]

That works? I am in a hybrid group (iMessage and RCS) and leave conversation is an option. It only gets disabled / replaced by delete and block if it‘s a MMS group.




Article is misleading, you don‘t have to wait on carriers for this seeing as all carriers did was provide a Google Jibe endpoint for RCS. So it‘s Google we‘re waiting on, carriers wont have to do anything other than push a carrier profile with RCS enabled and Jibe as their RCS hub.

AFAIK there are exactly zero carriers who provide their own RCS implementation, everyone just tells Google to be their backend.

Telstra did, but they ended up decommissioning their RCS servers once Google rolled out their Jibe severs defined in the OS.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

How do you know it isn't being held up on Apple's end? That's been the case for basically every carrier to an extent.

It’s not on Apple’s end. It’s never been. Every carrier that has enabled RCS has provided a carrier profile to Apple and if that profile enables RCS, that’s when RCS is available. Vonage wasn’t interested in RCS with the vast majority of their customers were using it, they’re still not interested now that a far smaller market device is using it.

 

[dkh587]

It’s ridiculous that we can’t even get the more recent RCS (2.7), and that they’re keeping us on 2.4

Classic 🍎

 

[Brenster]

Sad part is, the ones crying about "who cares this doesn't matter" doesn't have an android user in their life they text. RCS with IOS18 made group messaging with android users sooo much nicer. Not everyone hates people based on their phone choices and some people like android more than iPhone. Never understood why some iPhone users get mad when a feature gets added just because they won't use it.

Absolutely this! My 81yo mother in law couldn’t understand why her mobile bill kept having significant extra charges on. Turns out she was sending pictures via MMS on Android to my wife (our entire household is on iOS)), despite our suggesting she use email. With iPhone handing RCS, MIL can send and receive pictures on her Android phone in her chat app without her having to remember to break out into a seperate app/service just for pictures.

Everyone uses their regular default chat app and chats, delivery/read receipts, pictures and video clips all Just Work without anyone risking outrageous MMS charges.