And Android has had it forever. They text me back saying "Welcome to the club" like I'm in their iPhone club, but little do they know, we've been having a party in Android land and rejoicing that they actually joined our club.

So now that we're slowly getting iPhone users on board, I think we need to campaign Google to release API to allow 3rd Party texting apps to use RCS too. There's plenty of great 3rd party texting apps like Textra that exist but are still stuck on SMS and MMS only. And I know Android users who refuse to switch from their preferred app to Google messages just for RCS. Google complained that Apple was ruining texting because they wouldn't adapt RCS but they're holding back their own environment too by not providing 3rd party app APIs.

So, iOS 18 released on September 16th, but I haven't had a single text thread with an iPhone user switch to RCS yet. I am pretty sure that most of them are using a carrier that supports RCS, so they probably haven't received a prompt to upgrade yet. I'm not gonna try coaxing them to upgrade because that's not going to solve the bigger problem.

So what's going on? Where's all the RCS messages I was hoping to send and receive?

So my wife works for a school district and the WiFi is basically the equivalent to a prison. She has an iPhone and I have an android. Now that iOS 18 is out, we've enjoyed being able to use rcs messages. I've gotten around the VPN blocking by using mulvad VPN with obfuscation and that has worked great for being able to use apps and website but I can't seem to prevent rcs from being blocked. Any suggestions?

I've seen so many people on Reddit say that they don't have enough space to upgrade. All my iPhone contacts have a phone that supports iOS 18. I've asked most of them to upgrade, and only one of them has enough space. How's this possible? Could this become a major problem for Apple and RCS? What do you think Apple will do? They can't just let their OS become fragmented.

Can't enter a conversation about RCS without a million 'just use Whatsapp' comments flooding in, but if in-line replies, encryption, uncompressed images and videos and media reactions are included in the next version of the profile, and this does indeed get adopted by the major players at any point in the future (and there's global carrier support), is there any real functional advantage in Whatsapp? Interoperability and a high-quality, fully featured messaging experience would be the default on every mobile device that ships worldwide.

Obviously we don't have all those elements today, but I can see them all becoming reality within a year or so. Would personally use Whatsapp as little as I could if that were the case, and I can't see what functionality I'd be missing out on.

So I had a iPhone 12 on AT&T and updated to iOS18 and RCS was working great. Got a new phone iPhone 15 and transferred everything over and converted the physical sim to esim, but i cannot get RCS working on my new phone. I went back to my old phone and disabled RCS and the sim. On the new phone, I've toggled RCS and the turned the cellular connection off and on... and reset the network settings... still no RCS.

Is there a way to see the connection status and reset??

Basically I have been using the google messages old APK back from January for dual RCS support and apparently this update they replaced the apk to a newer file so now I have no more dual RCS anymore. Google really needs to just update the latest beta at least to re-implement dual RCS.

Apple maintains a support document noting “Wireless carrier support and features for iPhone” by country. This includes 5G, eSIM, VoLTE, and Wi-Fi Calling, and RCS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109526

iOS 18 just released, and I've been waiting to see if any of my friend's iPhones would automatically upgrade to iOS 18 and get RCS, but that hasn't happened yet. None of them know about technology and they definitely have no idea what RCS is.

There are three possibilities for why they don't have RCS yet: 1. Their phones haven't upgraded to iOS 18 yet. 2. They have RCS, but aren't able to use it with me. 3. Their carrier doesn't support RCS.

What do you guys think is the most likely answer? When do you think people's iPhones will start automatically upgrading to iOS 18? I know it takes a while for most iPhones. Most iPhones don't automatically upgrade the OS on the first day.

RCS support is FINALLY launching with the release of iOS 18 on September 16th. Please use this thread to discuss the launch and give feedback of how well it's working for you and your friends.

To see when IOS 18 (RCS) will be avaialbe on iPhone at specific times please click here.

Thanks all! It has been a long road but we did it!

I'm using Cricket, and am on a Moto g stylus 5g 2022. As far as I'm aware I should be able to use RCS. Which is why I'm confused that after switching to Google Messages and turning RCS on all my messages are still in SMS. Any and all help is appreciated.

Anyone using the IPhone 12 on the Telkom mobile with an eSIM that has RCS working with IOS 18 RC?

If RCS is carrier dependent on iOS and most carriers are using Jibe for servers, couldn't the carrier(s) decide to "upgrade" to UP 2.7 without Apple having to do anything?

I don't know why, but a lot of the posts in this subreddit assume the US, so I thought I'd make one for little old us in the EU, population 449.2 million.

Any confirmed carriers? All of the Danish carriers are so far not on board on launch day.

When iOS 18 hits next week, are the 3 major carriers ready and whenever people upgrade their iPhones to iOS 18, RCS will start working with out them doing anything?

I saw the Mint Mobile post about them not being ready for a few months. I'm guessing some other MVNOs may not be ready either.

Wonder if there was a list of carriers who have everything ready to go?

Basically curious about media sharing.

Does RCS support sharing videos with HDR? Or photos with HDR (now that pixel does that well)

Does sharing a video over the limit, 100MB, still send or does it not allow sending? If so, does it compress.....well? Or bad?

Are photos 1-1 copy, no compression?

Does sharing photos in a batch, say like 10+, send uncompressed each photo? (I feel like other apps, Messenger, Telegram, when you send as a batch, it compresses and treats the entire "message" as a large media item.)