Yep, but it’s also looking even if it does come it’s going to a basic and problematic version
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if IPv6 is a requirement then it makes me wonder why Three here in the UK doesn't support RCS on iPhones yet because like EE they are a single stack IPv6 + NAT64 network also however it could be that not all Three customers get IPv6 yet only some do. The implementation that O2 is working on seems it is only for VoLTE at the moment
bell in western canada (or at least manitoba under "bell mts" name) doesnt have ipv6, my rcs is fine?
Is anyone based in the UK running 18.2 beta on Vodafone? Can check if there is support? I saw somewhere that Three UK supports RCS in 18.2.
No, still not supported on beta 3.
From what I hear Vodafone used to run their own RCS server, but stopped and went with Google, they are now waiting on Google to update it for iPhone support.
It was working for a bit on Three and Smarty and then apparently people were having activation issues so the toggle is there but doesn’t really do anything.
yep all o2 says on the subject is the same generic statement of "Same for o2 as far as as I know
We're working to ensure that RCS is available for all our customers as soon as possible"
Am guessing maybe by the time iOS 18.2 is released to the public, they might actually have it.
maybe but then thanks to EE we believe 18.2 will be out on or around the 9th so that gives them like 3 weeks so you'd think in that 3 weeks they would be testing RCS on the betas
must be when Three has given customers on 18.2 beta the toggle for RCS and EE has supported it since the early ios 18 betas
No. It is not. But give it a try. You can always turn it off. On the other hand, if you’re still on iOS 17 I wouldn’t bother.
That means nothing. Vodafone.de was absent during the whole 18.0 beta period (including RC), then on the public release date all Vodafone.de users got a carrier profile update prompt that enabled RCS for them.
These things can be pushed OTA at any time without requiring a software update.
They've given their customers it because they've asked for it. My understanding is that the version of the RCS protocol used in iOS 18 is the bare minimum and lacking key features that Android users have, not only encryption but how it handles being out of connection where it will drop a person back into SMS and out of an RCS group chat.
Maybe that's fixed in later iOS18 version but I'm unaware of it being fixed yet?
While that is probably true, we have to keep in mind that carriers can push out updated carrier profiles without an iOS update.
Vodafone.de did it a few hours after the iOS 18.0 public release.
Hopefully for Vodafone too otherwise that would be very embarrassing for them as the only main network not to support RCS on iPhone
well they seem not to know what is going on with RCS on ios They started off blaming Google for lack of support (in a now-deleted tweet) then they said they don't support RCS at all and then they said for them to have the support they need to make "network changes" and now they just ignore questions on the topic seemingly awaiting the merger with Three
