For some weird reason, when im travelling with wifi calling, receiving sms messages is a crap shoot. I basically dont get them if theyre sent by a gov agency, bank, etc.
I do still get them from android phones. Its weird, i have no idea why.
SMS 2FA often blacklist VOIP and similar systems to avoid abuse. Try receiving SMS 2FA at a Twilio number, for instance – it’s super unreliable. There are virtually no providers where you can reliable receive 2FA via SMS programmatically, with the exception of a handful of companies who use large banks of real SIM cards.
> If you have an android phone yourself, maybe it's not actually SMS and it's actually RCS[1]?
And, in my experience, Android pushes you heavily to enable RCS; every time you open its messages app, there's a chance that it will randomly ask you to enable it, with a large button to enable and a small link to dismiss the dialog without enabling. I never tried, but I expect that once enabled, it'll never ask again, so it might have been enabled by accident sometime in the past.
JimDabell|2 years ago
janfromdaito|2 years ago
gruez|2 years ago
If you have an android phone yourself, maybe it's not actually SMS and it's actually RCS[1]?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
cesarb|2 years ago
And, in my experience, Android pushes you heavily to enable RCS; every time you open its messages app, there's a chance that it will randomly ask you to enable it, with a large button to enable and a small link to dismiss the dialog without enabling. I never tried, but I expect that once enabled, it'll never ask again, so it might have been enabled by accident sometime in the past.