After a year of RCS not working, this did the trick!
(Seemed like it didn't until I double checked my Play Services permissions and found SMS was disabled, likely after last attempt. Once I gave that permission it took less than a minute before I found the SMS in the inbox that the app picked up and used to turn RCS on.)
Thank you to everyone who figured this out!
OfflinePuffin it's about time!
DirtyDan That's a very interresting comparison my own experience. I'm from eastern Europe and most popular brands seem to be Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei. Obviously the majority uses Android. The diminished popularity of iPhones here seems to be from Apple not giving a crap about non-english speaking customers with many features (like Siri). Also majority uses communicators with Messanger being the most popular and WhatsApp close second. What I've noticed is that SMS are used as a more formal way of communication around here, something you do when you message someone you're not well acquainted with. With friends and family practically everyone writes via communicators.
Can confirm, RCS is working with I phones / iOS 18.
NightSky how long does it generally take for the whole population of iPhone people to get an update?
I have no idea. I guess it also depends on those who have manual vs auto updates.
From what I can tell, RCS is not activated in group chats, even though both iphone users have iOS 18 with RCS activated. If I'm not mistaken, RCS does doesn't work in group chats for Android users either. Just an observation.
It's worked for me with group chats BTW Androids, what Carrier, are your iPhone friends using?
RCS group messaging works on android for me
OfflinePuffin
I do apologize, I looked at an old group and it hadn't updated yet. I started a new group and it's showing RCS. My apologies for the false information.
No worries. Always happy to help, Hope you enjoy using RCS
Is anyone else having group chat replies coming in like the person replying started a new group chat?
It appears that Iphone user replies go to the original group chat, Android starts a new group chat.
NightSky when you start a new group chat on Android dose it create it as a MMS/SMS one? In regards to the situation you described.
Yea, they all say MMS.
Okay, it seems like Your connection to the RCS server is having issues. Does it create a new group chat on the other phones
I would check to make sure Google messages is fully updated and then try clearing the cache
OfflinePuffin
Play services didn't have contact permissions, wonder if that is the cause? I just gave it that permission and cleared cache, we'll see if it helps. Messages is up-to-date.
I don't think that's it since you can give messages That permission, And still have RCS... What happens on the iOS side?
This might be a weird one, but try removing yourself from the original RCS chat and then archive or delete all the other group chats and have your iOS friend add you back on their end. Also check to make sure that RCS is operational in messages.
