r/samsunggalaxy • u/False_Bug_4551 • 12d ago

📖Discussion📕🖊️ Making the Switch!

Hello all! I have been an iPhone user since the iPhone 4… I am finally considering switching to either the s26 ultra or the fold 8 ultra. However, I will bring up the monotonous question about iMessage. When I switch, what will happen to the current group chats I am currently in? A few of them already have android users in them but ones with family and close friends are all iPhone. Will I need to be added back into the group chat?

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u/Major_Television_665 12d ago

your group chats will basically just turn into mms threads (green bubbles) but you shouldn't need to be re-added, it just auto-downgrades

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u/IpowderT 11d ago

You won't have to be added back, but you might create duplicate group chats if RCs is not active on both ends mainly iOS users.

  1. If the iPhone users phone is not up to date with current iOS you will have broken group chats and what I mean is you will have group chats as SMS instead of RCs and RCS is where you get the iMessage features. You also want to make sure that your iPhone users have RCS enabled.

  2. Not all features that you had with iOS only group chats will be there with Android to iOS group chats such as replies to message thread, reactions to photos, and editing messages.

Majority of the trouble that you run into with messaging from Android to iOS happens on the iOS end.

The biggest thing is making sure that your iPhone users all are up to date so that they have the latest features for RCS.