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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 function that will 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 among the partitions between Android and iOS, RCS’s assist for the whole lot from emoji reactions to high-quality media attachments has significantly upgraded the texting expertise even whenever 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, at the least, the provider doesn’t matter a lot, however each you and the particular person you’re speaking to wish to have RCS in Messages flipped on.
Immediately we’re taking a look at Google’s new messages.android_20250618_00_RC00.cellphone.openbeta_dynamic construct of the Messages app, and inside we noticed a couple of very fascinating textual content strings:
Code
Textual content an invitation
"You'll be able to 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 strive? https://messages.google.com/get-rcs" With a little bit extra finagling, we had been capable of coax the app to indicate us considered one of these notices:
As soon as this function is stay, Messages will have the ability to 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 swap 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 harass them into making the swap? Seems like we’ll discover out!
