Group Chats-SEVERAL Issues

[stephenshutters]

@katarina.d

I (a Kompakt user) stopped receiving any group chat messages altogether in a chat with an iPhone and a Light Phone II after just one day.

Have you already gone through the separate processes of deregistering your phone number from both iMessage servers and RCS servers?

If so, then in a different thread on these forums, a user reported the following issue with group messages despite having done both of those things:

@mgayden

I do have one group text thread that predates my Kompakt where I can’t receive ANY messages to my Kompakt. This group is a mix of iPhone and Android users. I disabled iMessage on my iPhone prior to switching to the Kompakt, and I’ve verified my phone number on the Google form to turn off RCS. However, if the other participants message the group, I never receive the messages. I even tried starting a new group from my Kompakt, where they received my messages but no replies came to me. One of them also tried to remove me from the group text thread on their phone and then re-add me, but that didn’t help.

To which I responded:

@stephenshutters

Everyone else (not just you) needs to completely delete their existing group text threads with you in them. Then you need to start a new group text yourself.

I had the same problem when I first switched to the Kompakt. The issue seems to be that both Android and iOS handle group threads in such a manner that they default to RCS if a person ever used RCS in that group at all once upon a time. So even if you remove your phone number from RCS servers and then you start a new group thread on your phone, your friends’ phones will still default to your number being treated as if it is on RCS servers, because that information is “burned” into each group thread. This is why all of your friends must completely delete their old group threads that include you.

It’s a major hassle. It’s honestly the biggest hurdle to changing from a modern smart phone to the Mudita Kompakt, in my opinion. The iPhone-to-Android switch is nowhere near as painful as the iPhone-or-Android-to-Mudita switch. The problem is that both iPhone and Android use RCS these days. Turning off iMessage isn’t difficult at all in comparison to ditching RCS. If there were a way for the Kompakt to work with RCS, sooooooo many everyday problems would go away.