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Everything New in iOS 18 Beta 2
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I don't have the RCS setting in Messages after the update I'm in the US but my friend has it on his phone.
Imagine this comes out and your (insert relation here) and they leave your RCS toggle off.. 🤣 …but we can’t do that because it’s system wide.. should be per contact. I like android users not knowing about my status of the text sometimes.
Agree completely. They have to scrap this or else it’s gonna be another Maps fiasco.
I’m well aware.
“Right now, the RCS toggle only shows up for U.S. iPhone users who have a carrier that supports RCS, which includes…”
The list isn’t exclusive and I meet the criteria. So they have failed to provide the caveat that actually there are plenty of US carriers that support RCS that aren’t in fact enabled. Ergo, the article is incorrect.
Over on Android, I've been part of the Google Messages beta program since before RCS. When they added it and people started using it, my messages cache started getting huge, with all the locally-cached gifs and custom images and stuff. Gigabytes instead of a couple hundred megabytes. So I shut it off for a while when my space was low, and now clean it out a lot more often.
I'm thinking about disabling RCS again, because I've noticed some spammers now use RCS, which means they may get more info (I disabled read receipts, but who knows what else is sent; I suspect there's some "profile" interaction, with avatar and name getting returned, where SMS is fire and forget). I've seen a few spams lumping me in groups with strangers, and that seems more complicated to get out of than before. Since RCS can be end-to-end encrypted, this means no carrier filters in transit can identify obvious spam/phishing in a message body and block it before it hits my app, either, leaving it (and me) to do more work.
Beta 2 and CarPlay has new icons on the sidebar and also arrows to switch between screens.
The icon view and the split screen have new smaller (too small in my opinion) icons.
The split screen now has a small rounded square icon that looks like an old iPhone button (?) wtf?
I wish there was a way to customize de split screen into 2 or 3 and shift the size like on an iPad.
Also, all the popups for WhatsApp for example are smaller, fatter and not as nice as on iOS17...
I would love an auto hiding sidebar feature like a Mac's dock as well...
The icon view and the split screen have new smaller (too small in my opinion) icons.
The split screen now has a small rounded square icon that looks like an old iPhone button (?) wtf?
I wish there was a way to customize de split screen into 2 or 3 and shift the size like on an iPad.
Also, all the popups for WhatsApp for example are smaller, fatter and not as nice as on iOS17...
I would love an auto hiding sidebar feature like a Mac's dock as well...
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Im now getting my iPhone notifications (instagram etc) on my Mac, thats now enabled
The article does not say that the toggle shows up for *every* carrier which supports RCS. So it’s not wrong.
Also, relax, it doesn’t even work yet. It’s just a placeholder toggle at the moment.
I agree, I don’t like scrolling up all the way or tapping just to select my photos.
It’s still wrong. It doesn’t need to use the word ‘every’ to imply meeting the stated criteria means it should be displayed.
Just because I’m calling something out for being wrong, does not mean I’m not relaxed. The article needs to be clearer.
Well there are two levels of work:
1. It actually shows as a toggle.
2. You have the toggle and it actually functions as intended.
Which one are you?
