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Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions

by nmc on 3/3/20, 4:24 PM with 7 comments

• by akadruid1 on 3/3/20, 7:06 PM

  Apparently I have RCS fully supported. I only learned about this "feature" when I found an SMS I thought I had sent was sat there with an error message. Found out how to turn it off, will never use it again. I don't see how anyone ever thought "upgrading" SMS to be like WhatsApp but less reliable and still no encryption would be an improvement.

• by JohnFen on 3/3/20, 6:45 PM

  I don't want to use RCS in supported regions, so I suppose that's fair.

  I don't like RCS because it appears to eliminate several aspects of SMS that it an acceptable messaging system for me.

• by nmc on 3/3/20, 4:29 PM

  Took me a while to figure out why I was not able to pull MMS over WiFi anymore!

  (My "hack" was to have a SIM from a country where RCS/Chat is enabled, but actually using it in a country where RCS is not yet supported.)

• by perl4ever on 3/4/20, 12:29 AM

  Revision Control System? I think I remember that...

• by jsjddbbwj on 3/3/20, 5:51 PM

  iPhone doesn't support RCS. Therefore, it's dead on arrival.