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HouseLannister said:
Do they though? The reason Google stepped up and did their own thing is because none of the carriers were adding the infrastructure and they wanted it to "just work." It works on your Android phone, but that isn't because of anything Mint did.
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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.
 
dk001 said:
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.
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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).
 
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Do MVNO's figure into this? I know I have AT&T via Pure Talk and it's showing RCS as available and enabled in both places.
 
Vodafone DE finally!! Needed to go to Settings > About and a Carrier Update appeared (to 59.1) but now the RCS toggle finally showed up.
 
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I was curious about this for O2-UK and spoke with Support, and was told the following:

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So, hopefully it'll be any week now!
 
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.
 
Adam-Kay- said:
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I was curious about this for O2-UK and spoke with Support, and was told the following:

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So, hopefully it'll be any week now!
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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...
 
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?
 
TimFL1 said:
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.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

Should probably replace the wiki post now
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The supported carriers in the US are listed as follows:
  • 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
I've updated the wiki post accordingly.
 
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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...
 
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.
 
At work, we have a Verizon government/non-profit enterprise account. We were told that they are prohibited to allow RCS for those types of accounts.

Has anyone else heard of this? It does appear to be in the Verizon terms....but why?
 
liberte1776 said:
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. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Did you see my post above? The CEO of Mint addressed this in a post on Reddit.
 
jedimasterkyle said:
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...
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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
 
ant the ninja said:
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
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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.
 
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