RCS not working on forwarded devices

[Morac]

I have RCS enabled on my iPhone 15 Pro Max running iOS 18. I found someone that shows “text message - RCS”. I have messages set to forward to my iPad on iPadOS 18 and Mac on Sequoia. If I look at the same person on those devices it shows “text message -SMS”.

Does iOS 18 not support forwarding RCS messages to other devices?

 

[TimFL1]

It works here on both macOS and iPadOS. Maybe it takes a while to properly sync presence over to your Mac.

Nevertheless, sending messages from your Mac to a RCS enabled contact should send as RCS regardless of it showing SMS or RCS, since your Mac only sends a message payload over to your phone which then does the actual texting.

At least I was able to RCS chat with people from a Mac on macOS 14 before I upgraded to Betas on there.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

My forwarded iPad shows RCS..

 

[Morac]

I’m still only seeing one message thread in messages that says RCS on my iPhone and the same one says SMS on my iPad. It’s not someone I want to send a message to as it’s a work contact.

I found 2 places to “test RCS”: the number in https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...ofessional-Sports-Team-to-Offer-RCS-Messaging which I get no response from and https://kitchen-sink-bot.appspot.com/ which fails to register.

As such I have no way to actually test RCS.

Is there any way to actually test RCS?

 

[TimFL1]

I’m still only seeing one message thread in messages that says RCS on my iPhone and the same one says SMS on my iPad. It’s not someone I want to send a message to as it’s a work contact.

I found 2 places to “test RCS”: the number in https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...ofessional-Sports-Team-to-Offer-RCS-Messaging which I get no response from and https://kitchen-sink-bot.appspot.com/ which fails to register.

As such I have no way to actually test RCS.

Is there any way to actually test RCS?

Kitchen sink is afaik business messaging, which your carrier has to opt into (it‘s a separate business messaging toggle in the RCS settings sub-menu).

Do none of your contacts have Android phones? I forced my co-workers and close friends to text me via RCS to test it. Nowadays I regularly text with one friend abroad and another close friends who‘s also pretty anti-Meta/WhatsApp. Other than that everyone else is WhatsApp exclusive here (bar a few I text with via iMessage, including family).

 

[Morac]

Do none of your contacts have Android phones? I forced my co-workers and close friends to text me via RCS to test it.

Most of my family and co-workers have iPhones. I did find one co-worker who is showing as RCS, though again only on my iPhone, not my Mac or iPad. I guess I can try testing with him though I never text him, I use Teams.

 

[TimFL1]

Most of my family and co-workers have iPhones. I did find one co-worker who is showing as RCS, though again only on my iPhone, not my Mac or iPad. I guess I can try testing with him though I never text him, I use Teams.

I would test with you but I am an Apple stan with a pretty big investment in iMessage with my close family.

I‘d be interested in trying out group chats, but afraid of accidental MMS charges since Apple allows you to downgrade a group to MMS. Surprised that no one set up a MacRumors group chat to discuss RCS yet, but most are probably on iOS.

 

[msackey]

Hmm...I'm also not seeing RCS on my iPad.

With one user under my messaging on iPhone, I see that friend has RCS. However, when I look at my iPad, it says SMS with that friend.

How do make iPad recognize RCS?

 

[chrfr]

Hmm...I'm also not seeing RCS on my iPad.

With one user under my messaging on iPhone, I see that friend has RCS. However, when I look at my iPad, it says SMS with that friend.

How do make iPad recognize RCS?

If your iPad is on iPadOS 18, it should recognize RCS. Mine do.

 

[msackey]

If your iPad is on iPadOS 18, it should recognize RCS. Mine do.

Mine is on iPadOS 18 and has been since the software was released as general public.

 

[TimFL1]

Try clicking the new message composer and opening the chat that way. That triggers a presence check, maybe it works for iPads too.