Turn off mobile data on your phone and Wi-fi and see how far you get with RCS, you will find it will send the message via SMS. RCS need a data connection
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iOS 18 RCS Support Rolling Out to Beta Users
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It’s also why RCS is likely to be poorly supported. It’s a solved issue already.
And you know for a fact that RCS will not be counted towards your data use? It will not be easy to seaprate the data that is used for RCS and other uses, and what about virtual mobile networks?
Even if there is a way for it to be separated there still have to be some limits, otherwise you could send in theory a large 4K video file instead of sending it via email or some other way that would take data.
There could be a limit in RCS, I don't know, I have never used it as I have said I don't use Google messages on my phone, I use Textra
That is the advantage of RCS in that all phones or most phones will come supplied with it, unless you have a feature or basic mobile phone and some people still have them. The problem is, a lot of people use apps like Whatsapp and will stick with them as they do the job and some more things that RCS don't do.
As I have said before, RCS have been in the U.K for a while and yet WhatsApp is still around a lot, even the BBC ask people to use WhatsApp to get in touch, mainly because you can leave a voice message. Can't do that on RCS.
I have never used Whatsapp, never seen the need for it, even when I get people asking me or sending an invitation to use it. My view is that they can text me, phone me, email me or if they really have to, send me a message on Faceache. If they can, they can even leave a message with Alexa if they want, a mate does that when saying about meeting for a few drinks.
There are more countries on thie earth than the U.S. of A, I know sometime you Americans forget about that.
While I'd almost agree, if they have to communicate with people outside the USA, many choose to install WhatsApp on their cellphones because of WhatsApp's huge user base in Europe, Africa and much of southern Asia. That's why I have it on my iPhone 12.
A reason why WhatsApp, WeChat and LINE took off was that people until recent years often ran up big charges for sending SMS/MMS text, and these apps (more or less) avoid that issue. That's why WhatsApp is so widely used in Europe, Africa and southern Asia.
In the U.S. unlimited texting with SMS has been a feature of almost all mobile plans for years. That's one reason why it's still so used here.
But only since around the 2013-2014 or so. Before that, if you texted a lot you ran the risk of running up a BIG cellphone bill. Implementing unlimited texting by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile is a boon for a lot of people nowadays.
This i don't know, I have had a quck look around and so far found nothing, the only thing have found is something in a FAQ type of thing on the website of a store in the U.K called Curry's, they sell electrical and appliances, they are pretty big in the U.K, not that I have used them for years. Anyway, what I found is this .
If I remember tomorrow when I get home from work, I will do some more research.
Yeah I get free SMS but the problem is in the UK, at least with EE, I get charged for sending images over MMS which is an expense with this MEME/GIF world we live in lol. I’m hoping RCS will prevent this
Lmao “apple loyalists”. You folks kill me with this rhetoric you create.
I’m not loyal to apple. Apple is one of two major operating system and the other one is highly inferior ecosystem so I’ve learned to adapt.
The only thing “weak” is people thinking that having a preference is weak. Android users for whatever reason seem to have some sort of inferiority complex anytime you speak harshly of android yet apple users generally don’t care lol.
Do you know how many times I hear that android has X feature for years and I literally do not care.
You call android slow (and on any hardware that is not a flagship device and keep in mind that’s like 90 percent of android devices) and android users get defensive.
I’ve used android since 2009 with my
og Motorola droid. Just found that randomly last week in my storage. I was an avid htc fan girl. 15 years later and over 70 plus Devices owned I am an apple user. Partially because Microsoft let me down with windows 8/phone 8 and lumia but also because apple is the only one who has a strong ecosystem and I don’t feel like I’m the product.
Android fans on iPhone get RCS how. Good for you. But immediately get defensive when iOS users want to turn it off.
lol android users talk about freedom of choice then get upset when others choose to want nothing to do with android.
The double standard is hilarious. Make it make Sense
I suppose the carriers will have to eventually change how they bill RCS. SMS will eventually disappear in favor of RCS.
I know for a fact that RCS is intended to replace SMS. If it uses data then it’s wouldn’t be a replacement for sms.
It works with group messages (I tried), but if you’re sending to Android users who have RCS and iPhone users, it won’t be RCS cause, most likely, those iPhone users r still on an iOS version below 18 beta 2.
It‘s technically not a replacement, just another OTT, so it‘s charged by consuming your data. At least that‘s how it works here and for everyone I talked to about RCS over the years.
You‘d be the first to have this be handled via SMS allotment I know of.
I am on Smarty in the U.K, I have no idea if I get charged for sending images over MMS or not as i don;lt do that. I don;lt think so.
i sometimes send messages that are turned into MMS and don't get charged extra for them.
SMS will not vanish for years, if it ever does, it is used for things that send auto messages and can also be used normally in a low signal area.
Google and others may want it to replace SMS, but I doubt it ever will, still plenty of phones around that will never use RCS and still phones being sold that can't use it. Not everyone wants, or require a smartphone and unless they can;t put RCS into a normal phone due to these phone not having data.
RCS requires a data connection, it won't work otherwise. I know I tried it on my partner's phone, turn off Wi-Fi and mobile data and RCS sends messages via SMS. and also it makes sense since RCS will need the data connection to send over large files,
well I think it might be the telcos in the end, onvce people start asking for/demanding rcs and sms/mms volumes drop significantly they might not want to run the old sms/mms backend any more, witt it happen thi year, nopes. will it be a reality by the mid 2030s probably
In the end, I still say most people--at least outside the USA--moved on to operating system-agnostic apps like WhatsApp, WeChat and LINE a long time ago. Users weren't thrilled running up big bills doing SMS/MMS messaging.
Getting RCS support in iOS 18 is fine, but in many cases you're still dealing with service charges over a set limit for messages.
Getting RCS support in iOS 18 is fine, but in many cases you're still dealing with service charges over a set limit for messages.