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TL;DR
- To take full benefit of RCS messaging options, everybody within the chat must have RCS enabled.
- Google Messages is engaged on a characteristic that may immediate you to ship associates with out RCS a message asking them to show it on.
Messaging on Android is healthier than it’s ever been, and an enormous a part of that’s as a result of arrival of Wealthy Communication Companies (RCS) assist. Whereas that’s completely helped begin knocking down a few of the partitions between Android and iOS, RCS’s assist for all the pieces from emoji reactions to high-quality media attachments has significantly upgraded the texting expertise even once you’re simply chatting with fellow Android customers.
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Whereas all that’s nice, utilizing RCS has one large asterisk hooked up to it: all people concerned must be on board. With Google Messages, a minimum of, the provider doesn’t matter a lot, however each you and the particular person you’re speaking to want to have RCS in Messages flipped on.
As we speak we’re taking a look at Google’s new messages.android_20250618_00_RC00.telephone.openbeta_dynamic construct of the Messages app, and inside we noticed a number of very attention-grabbing textual content strings:
Code
Textual content an invitation
"You may share high-quality media and ship safe messages once we're each on RCS."
Invite this contact to RCS chat
"Hello! I seen you are utilizing SMS to textual content. We will share high-quality media and ship safe messages once we're each on RCS. Need to attempt? https://messages.google.com/get-rcs" With just a little extra finagling, we had been in a position to coax the app to indicate us one in all these notices:
As soon as this characteristic is dwell, Messages will be capable of detect when the particular person you’re texting with isn’t utilizing RCS, and give you the choice to ship them a “pleasant” reminder to get with this system and switch it on — or to really get this system, and change to Messages within the first place.
We will think about that RCS hold-outs will rapidly discover themselves peppered with these texts from their extra RCS-friendly contacts. Will that be sufficient to bother them into making the change? Seems like we’ll discover out!
