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Send and Receive RCS Messages on iPhone
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Could they please allow us to change the color of the green bubble to something else? It would be much easier on my eyes. Reading white text on a green background isn't the best.
I assume RCS messages send through a connection to your iPhone like SMS does so it probably just uses whatever settings you have enabled on your phone
Typical EU. Blame Apple for everything. It’s on carriers.
iPads don‘t support carrier messaging directly, they simply relay the content to your iPhone which decides what to send it with.
Messages on iPad does sync over availability of carrier messaging services though for usability (e.g. it showcases RCS in the input box, although it still wont decide what to send a message as since that‘s done by your phone).
Not here in the UK on O2. O2 were the carrier of choice when it launched in the UK (UK launch) but are no longer cutting edge. Not only are they not keeping up with latest features they're so much slower compared to the best network (18mbps vs 54mbps) (O2 vs EE), also behind Three (80-92mps compared to 228-285mpbs 5g) (Mobile network experiance)
Sorry but the fact that you think Cook makes these kind of decisions maybe show how clueless you are. This is a marketing strategy to keep people in the Apple ecosystem. They want people to want blue bubbles hence iPhones everywhere.
This is a good thing so that people know if you have Apple’s better encryption vs the (still better than MMS and SMS) worse encryption that RCS uses.
The mis/disinformation being spread in this thread is astounding.
absolutely no possible outcome that RCS will be a thing since global telcos do not offer such service. iMessage will always top that. but top of it all, FBM and WA will top all of them (with Telegram, Signal and whatever else on the side)
iPads purchased with cellular modems do indeed support carrier messaging directly. If your iPad has cellular it doesn’t not have to forward texting to an iPhone.
What is your definition for a "private communication"? I don't think in my whole life so far that I've sent a text that I cared where someone else saw it or not. Are you using your phone for illicit activities? I mean, it's nice that an iMessage is end-to-end encrypted, but I wouldn't care if it wasn't. My texts are just grains of sand on an endless beach.
Yeah, while that may be true, when composing a message in the text box it will show the kind of messages you are working with
If it's RCS, it'll say Text Message - RCS instead of Text Message - SMS or iMessage
I don't think the goal is to draw people away from WhatsApp, it's just to improve messaging in general. It's just the evolution of SMS, which is still pretty commonly used in the States. This just brings outdated SMS up to more modern standards.
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My smaller MVNO doesn't support this and when I contacted them a few months ago they didn't if/when they would. But I'm saving so much money with them over my previous Verizon plan I really don't care.
True, but SMS still exists as kind of a default backup. Even if you never use it, you'd probably think it's pretty weird if a phone/carrier didn't have a built-in way of sending text messages that didn't require a 3rd party app. RCS is just upgrading that default messaging protocol to be more in line with what those aforementioned messaging apps offer. After all, SMS hasn't really changed since cellphones first gained the ability to send text messages decades ago.
Apple still has a vested interest in having users prefer iMessages over everything else. They're always going to make any alternative less appealing, and as much as it might irritate us, it's brilliant on their part. There's evidence that shows that people switch to or stick with iPhones just for iMessage alone.
The people you message must be stuck in the past then. No offense to you or to them personally, but everyone I know that uses Android moved to RCS a long time ago. Most iPhone users I know have this feature toggled on as well.
What carrier do you have? I thought the Dutch carriers did not support it yet.Works for me in the Netherlands
This is such an annoying mentality that Apple has there. RCS on iOS is as underwhelming and broken as it gets, loads of issues with their implementation that grind my gears:
- The biggest issue: they group RCS with SMS/MMS
- iOS decides at random to fall back to SMS/MMS for RCS messages, that could not be delivered for whatever reason (no way to turn off and prevent accidental charges)
- Very VERY aggressive RCS connectivity checks / downgrades, it flips back to SMS at the slightest inconvenience (not-so-great connection? yeah back to SMS and you‘ll stay there for eternity even when connection recovers)… sometimes you have bulletproof full 5G, but RCS is just gone cause iOS doesn‘t like the tower or sun position -> just treat it like iMessage, once RCS is detected for a contact… stay at RCS, even when you‘re offline… until you manually send as SMS or have your fallback active
- Group chats are an absolute mess due to Apple combining RCS and SMS/MMS, they on-the-fly downgrade you to a MMS group which causes headache on the Android side, cause the spec outlines you may not mix both technologies (e.g. on Google Messages, the input box gets disabled when your RCS connection fails, whereas on iOS, Apple just lets you blast MMS in there which works for you, but you accidentally create a new MMS group for any Android participants with a single message you sent just now …). The 2 technologies aren‘t even compatible in terms of spec, MMS groups usually cap at 6-10 users whereas RCS mandates 100 as the shared limit any implementation should use… good luck downgrading your RCS group to MMS when you have 20+ participants, oh the nightmare ….
- Apple still enforces arbitrary stuff like "less than 4 participants in your group? tough luck, can‘t leave until you add another poor soul which stays in your place then" they enforce for iMessage groups … it‘s the only platform that has this awkward design choice, get rid of it (for both RCS and iMessage) and get with the times
- RCS does not work on a lot of wifi networks with limitations, cause they use awkward ports for their implementation instead of relying in well-known ones like Google Messages does
RCS on iOS is designed to do the bare minimum in an annoying way (in terms of UX), so the cries are silenced but you gain very little in return.