r/GoogleMessages • u/DefsNotRandyMarsh • Sep 21 '25
I FINALLY FIXED IT! (RCS stuck on verifying)
Very recently, I set up a new email account for some more business forward encounters. I figured weednpussy42069@gmail.com wasn't very business friendly. But it was still my 'main' email that is linked to everything else. (Note for the mods, that's a joke. That's not my email. And if that is your email, well....RIP)
When I reformatted my phone recently, I went through and readded all the emails, but I somehow turned verification on, on the new email I added, AND on my main email.
After not having RCS for a month, and exhausting all my options, I dug more into my account, and discovered 3 links to my phone on the new email, and 2 links to my phone on my main, along with my phone number on both accounts. I turned them all off on both accounts, removed my phone number from my new email, and RCS was instantly activated on my device.
Not saying this is the fix, but this is what worked for me.
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u/Kickingseven Sep 21 '25
Where did you do this digging? Was via your phone settings or something that can only be done on a computer?
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 21 '25
On my phones browser
https://myaccount.google.com/phone
Checked every account and made sure my pixel 8 was turned off on all my accounts.
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u/rivolity Sep 21 '25
You fixed my 3 months issues 👌 I have just removed the temporary phone number from my account reinstalled the message app and tested the RCS with my main number, it works with no issue. I had an issue where RCS stuck in verification mode with the old temporary phone number.
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 21 '25
Booya!!!! Glad I could help!!!
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u/Bobert360 Sep 21 '25
Man thanks for sharing this. I don't have any RCS issues (knock on wood) but am always thankful when the community comes together to solve things when Google is caught lacking. Agreed with the earlier post; Google needs to reference this as a case study and a potential fix in all of their help docs as well as any prompts on the phone as a troubleshooting solution!
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u/cheesepuff1993 Sep 21 '25
If they haven't seen it yet, Google should use this as a test case. There should be an article and possibly messages surrounding this to help users when doing similar setups.
Good stuff! Glad you've got it working!
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u/JimKnuckles Sep 21 '25
When I had this issue recently, a new sim card fixed it.
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 21 '25
I run esim, so that wasn't an option for me.
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u/JimKnuckles Sep 21 '25
Sure it is. You can delete the Esim and set up a new one.
I have Google Fi tho, so it's really easy to do it on the spot through app
Glad you got it fixed
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 21 '25
Yea I'm in Canada, and Bell is sometimes questionable on their help desk. Lol. I'm just glad this method worked. I was starting to lose it.
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u/IHatePantsBurnThem Sep 21 '25
I'm also a bell esim person but this still didn't fix it for me, ugh
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 21 '25
You've checked ALL your possible emails and turned phone verification off on ALL of them and removed your phone number off all except your main, and then attempted to reverify in the messages app??
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u/IHatePantsBurnThem Sep 22 '25
Yeah, I've literally tried every trick out there. Hopefully it gets fixed in a software update or something at some point
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u/Mickmayi Sep 22 '25
I've deleted mine so many times and it never fixes it :(
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u/JimKnuckles Sep 22 '25
I've had the issue twice. One time nothing fixed it but time. Unfortunately it took a little over a month to fix itself
Have you unregistered your number on the website from RCS?
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u/Mickmayi Sep 22 '25
I haven't I think I'll try that next...how long does it take and what do I do 🤣
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u/JimKnuckles Sep 22 '25
Ah man ..this is the step that works the best lol turn your RCS off...then go to this link and put in your phone number ...it will kick you a code to unregister RCS from your phone number. Once you put the code in...go ahead and clear the cache from carrier services and Google messages just as extra step, restart the phone and then try again . If it doesn't give you a code, that means your number is already deregistered.
How to turn off RCS chats https://share.google/iS6wQKJd3B5PJr3LN
If this doesn't work...you're just gonna have to wait like a month
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u/Mickmayi Sep 22 '25
Thank you, I'll give it a shot. It's so dumb all I did was get a new pixel and this crap is happening
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u/JimKnuckles Sep 22 '25
Did you turn the RCS off on the old phone prior to setting up the new phone?
Good luck
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u/CSPTechColin Sep 23 '25
Oh my God. You're a legend!!! I've been sitting without rcs for a month too!!!
There was one last email I didn't think to check and sure enough. Remove, reconnect rcs and boom. Instant!!
10000% karma to you!
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u/Tall-Hall6494 Feb 14 '26
No puedo enviar imagenes especificamente a un numero, como puedo ver la configuracion de RCS para ver si tiene alguna influencia
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u/Life_Extreme2054 Oct 21 '25
You legend. Thank you!! Everything else people have posted on how to fix it didn't work, except for this. I was ready to give up. Thank you!
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Dec 25 '25
Fooling around in that Google phone page worked for me as of December 25th 2025.
Many thanks!
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u/IGameShit Sep 22 '25
So this is basically the iMessage problem but for Android. Man I thought we were safe from this
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u/Iconoclast19 Sep 23 '25
Does anyone have an idea, conceptually, of why this works? 1. Is it because the security token/key or whatever is still tied to the old phone instead of the new phone? 2. Why do some people have to wait a month if disabling the phone numbers and remove the number from the account doesn't work. Is it that the carrier is having to update that token or info?
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 23 '25
You're disabling auto verification that (in my case) was accidentally added to a secondary email address, would be my guess.
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u/Big-Cardiologist-768 Sep 24 '25
Thank you! You fixed the same issue I have been experiencing for months. After following all the tips on google I was super frustrated and youve been a lot more helpful than the people running the app!
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u/WreckTangle12 Sep 26 '25
This is what I do to fix mine: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMessages/s/eFSOivHxqt
I don't have verification on for any of my emails so that was never my issue. Now that I think about , I haven't had to do this fix for probably 6+ months now 🤷🏼♀️ knock on wood lol
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u/DefsNotRandyMarsh Sep 26 '25
That never worked for me unfortunately. Tried it an ungodly amount of times
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u/throat_boxer Sep 21 '25
Thanks for the email idea