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Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions

10 points| nmc | 6 years ago |androidauthority.com

7 comments

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.

JohnFen|6 years ago

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.

m-p-3|6 years ago

Especially with the absence of E2EE, which seems the logical step up from SMS.

nmc|6 years ago

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.)

perl4ever|6 years ago

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

jsjddbbwj|6 years ago

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

m-p-3|6 years ago

It will eventually have to if it becomes ubiquitous.