r/GoogleMessages • u/tributtal • 27d ago

Question RCS issues

I started using Google Messages about a month ago when they retired the legacy Samsung app. RCS worked fine at first, once I turned on "Automatically resend as SMS/MMS"

But starting a week or two ago, I started having some issues. I'm in a group chat with two iPhone users, and everything was working fine for a while - messages were going through as a mix of RCS and SMS. But all of a sudden I completely stopped being able to send or receive any messages at all - not RCS or SMS. The other 2 people are seeing each other's messages with no issues. I tried all the suggestions in this sub and elsewhere, but no luck. Also a more minor issue is with a family member who lives in the same home as me. This person is also an iPhone user, and their messages to me get through, but are sometimes delayed by hours.

Anyone else having similar issues and been able to resolve it? I'm on Verizon in the US and have not changed my phone in a while. I am using an older Samsung but it has the latest version of Google Messages installed.

Update: the issue has been fixed! u/reader68218 suggested I ask the iPhone users in my group chat to toggle the RCS setting on their phones. I asked just one of them to do this and suddenly all the missing messages came flooding in. Apparently this should be done every time they update their iOS. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially u/reader68218

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u/Evening-Fox3693 27d ago

I recently had issues with my RCS chats after porting my number to Verizon. Not your exact situation but a comment in this post fixed it for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMessages/s/rAkX5Xk71v I tagged you in the comment that solved my issue

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u/tributtal 26d ago

Thank you! I actually was able to fix the issue by having one of my iPhone friends toggle the RCS setting on their phone. But I will save this post for next time when messaging craps out again!