iPhone How to leave an RCS chat group

[DominikHoffmann]

I have been part of a chat group that originally was iMessage-only. A couple of years ago someone with an Android phone (🤮) was added to the group, and it turned green SMS. Now that iOS supports RCS, the group chat has turned into an RCS chat.

The question is, what I have to do to leave the chat, without deleting it from my chat history altogether. Is that even possible? I just did not see an option for doing that, when I tapped on the chat header. The only option was “Delete and Block this Conversation.” That does not sound like an option that would leave the chat in my chat history.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

You don’t, basically. There’s no “centralized management” of text groups with mixed-in non-iMessage. It’s sort of like a bulk-email reply-all; if someone includes you… you’re gonna get it

 

[DominikHoffmann]

I believe, I have witnesses an Android user unilaterally leaving such a group. It would seem to me that Apple could bring that capability to a future release of iOS.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

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