Everyone,
I am nervous because my spouse and my family uses iMessage. Now the default is to have RCS on (ios18) and I am not sure that I will even receive their messages even after deregistering iMessage since the Kompakt and LP3 only use SMS. Will this be the case if I am on the Kompakt or LP3?
@urszula do you happen to know this? Sorry for all the questions!
Don’t be nervous. I get on my no-RCS-feature-available flip-phone any message from someone using RCS – be it on iPhone or on Google Android with RCS enabled.
Thank you so much @kirkmahoneyphd
@anon80904485 I can’t speak about iMessages because it is an apple product & apple doesn’t really like playing well with others. Hence the green bubble shaming from Apple people. LOL
You learn to embrace green 
@urszula oh I am okay with green haha! I just hope I have reliable messages with my family since after this change I will be the only one without an iPhone
@The I’ve learned not to care AT ALL 
Good thing that in there rest of the Android has a HUGE market share. It’s just the US that’s biased toward APPLE 
You will be fine, @anon80904485.
You will get a separate SMS message from each RCS-group-thread user (such as one of your iPhone-using relatives) who likes a message – say, with a heart icon – in that thread. In contrast, the heart-icon “likes” in an RCS group thread accumulate beneath the single, liked message.
Yes, the SMS experience is effectively wordier, but you WILL get an SMS message for everyone else’s interaction RCS-wise in the thread.
okay @kirkmahoneyphd that makes sense. thank you for the clarification! I have been iPhone for so long i forgot how to android lol
One more question about RCS. Do you know if an RCS app or functionality is being planned @urszula?
RCS messaging is supposed to be this great thing and an open messaging protocol but it turns out it’s just another corporate controlled system. on android its essentially entirely dependant on Google, and requires google play services to be installed on the device to function, and google messages to function. No google, no RCS. no one has implemented a 3rd party solution, and while there were some carrier based solutions few exist, and the ones that do only support specific devices.
it is simply a google monopoly disguised as an open protocol.
the most universal option thats not dependant on corporations that isn’t SMS, is something like Signal. you’d simply need to stand your ground that its SMS or Signal to get in contact with you, most people will use one or the other to do so if they care about you
So I just tried it with my friend, both iPhones, I’ve disabled iMessage, sent sms, no issue, he also disabled and we both were sending sms, no action required like it was since 2010 for me.
Also your SIM card doesn’t really know it is in android or iPhone and doesn’t care, your phone will send sms when you want it to.
@anon80904485 Currently, we don’t have plans to include RCS messaging, but we’re open to exploring the possibility in the future. While we can’t make any guarantees, we’ll keep it in mind as we continue to develop our features.
