If Mint did not, how are they handling RCS on Android today?
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If Mint did not, how are they handling RCS on Android today?
I don’t enough about that end of it, the infrastructure, to reliably make a decent guess.
Probably just the generic Jibe fallback that Google added to Google Messages in 2019 (if your carrier doesn‘t do their job and provides RCS, Google just takes over and signs you up via generic Jibe).
I did that for O2UK it did give me an update too (to 59.1 like yours) but still no RCS
I did that for O2UK it did give me an update too (to 59.1 like yours) but still no RCS
All 59.1 did was enable 5G SA on o2
It took me several tries after updating today for RCS to work. It would immediately error out when I tried to send a message from my iPhone but when I tried from an Android back it would circle. After about 60 second the RCS messages came through and it was working as advertised. Very nice to get reactions from Android.
That sounds like he doesn't know that the Global Roll out has happened today, might check in with my Enterprise Account Manager tomorrow and see if they know owt...
Apple has updated their carrier features website and it includes RCS Messaging as a feature:
support.apple.com
Should probably replace the wiki post now
Wireless carrier support and features for iPhone in Europe - Apple Support
Choose your country or region to learn about the wireless carriers available to you.
Should probably replace the wiki post now
I only have a few people I know with Androids and I texted two of them, one comes up as RCS and works great but the other stays as SMS. Does the other person need to enable it on their android as well? Or is it on by default for them?
The supported carriers in the US are listed as follows:Apple has updated their carrier features website and it includes RCS Messaging as a feature:
Wireless carrier support and features for iPhone in Europe - Apple Support
Choose your country or region to learn about the wireless carriers available to you.
Should probably replace the wiki post now
- AT&T
- C Spire
- Consumer Cellular
- Cricket
- FirstNet
- Metro by T-Mobile
- PureTalk
- Red Pocket
- Spectrum
- T-Mobile
- TracFone
- US Cellular
- Verizon
- Visible
- Xfinity Mobile
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It’s not exactly 100% accurate. It shows Mint as not supporting eSIM and they absolutely do.Apple has updated their carrier features website and it includes RCS Messaging as a feature:
Wireless carrier support and features for iPhone in Europe - Apple Support
Choose your country or region to learn about the wireless carriers available to you.
Should probably replace the wiki post now
Yes the data on the Apple website isn't 100% complete. I've updated the supported carriers in the wiki post for Canada.
The CEO of Mint said in a Reddit comment that RCS support will take ”a few months” because ”the backend transition is taking some time.”
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So far, my impressions of RCS are meh...
I have it enabled on my iPhone 15 Pro and I asked my wife to enable it on her Samsung Galaxy this morning. I thought after that, all of our messages would be sent via RCS but it seems that they're still being sent as SMS. For example...
I took our dog for a walk this morning and sent her a few RCS messages about it and I thought they went through no problem.
After a minute, I noticed that I was getting a barage of "Message could not be delivered" notifications and they were all from the RCS messages I sent her.
I resent them as SMS and voila, they went though.
I really hope this is just a bug because Apple made a big deal about RCS being a thing now...
I have it enabled on my iPhone 15 Pro and I asked my wife to enable it on her Samsung Galaxy this morning. I thought after that, all of our messages would be sent via RCS but it seems that they're still being sent as SMS. For example...
I took our dog for a walk this morning and sent her a few RCS messages about it and I thought they went through no problem.
After a minute, I noticed that I was getting a barage of "Message could not be delivered" notifications and they were all from the RCS messages I sent her.
I resent them as SMS and voila, they went though.
I really hope this is just a bug because Apple made a big deal about RCS being a thing now...
Mint Mobile is clueless about RCS support for iOS 18 when I called them multiple times yesterday, clearly they need to update their carrier settings file to add support, which currently says only Voice & SMS under IMS Status. Perhaps they have no infrastructure setup yet, but they do support RCS for Android. 🤷🏼♂️
So after a day of RCS it brings the most wanted features like typing indicators, read receipts, higher quality photo/video, and reactions.
But it's still missing basics like group read receipts and typing indicators in group chats.
I'll still dump whatsapp for it to consolidate into 1 messaging app, but it's still definitely inferior to messaging apps and imessage.
But it's still missing basics like group read receipts and typing indicators in group chats.
I'll still dump whatsapp for it to consolidate into 1 messaging app, but it's still definitely inferior to messaging apps and imessage.
Did you see my post above? The CEO of Mint addressed this in a post on Reddit.
Ahh so it’s not enabled by default on android phones? I texted two of my friends with androids, one was RCS and the other is SMS and I couldn’t figure out why
Yeah from what I can tell, when it's iPhone to Android, they seem to be switching back and forth between RCS and SMS on their own and there is no rhyme or reason why. When RCS does work, it is cool to see the delivered and read receipts on the green bubbles but its the lack of consistency that's killing it for me right now.