RCS Messaging for iPhone is Here! | A Complete Guide!
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- RCS messaging on iPhone is here! Here is what you need to know
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Chapters
0:00 - RCS for iPhone is here
0:14 - RCS iPhone Support
0:45 - How to turn RCS on iPhone
1:14 - Cellular Data Carrier SUpport
1:25 - RCS Demo
1:33 - How to know if RCS is working
2:05 - Sending a normal RCS message & Read Receipts
2:16 - React to Messages with RCS
2:24 - iPhone switches between SMS & RCS
2:45 - How to force RCS on iPhone
3:33 - Do inline replies work?
4:00 - Sending images vis RCS
4:49 - Sending video vis RCS
5:26 - Does Group messaging work?
6:30 - RCS is working with a catch
7:30 - Final THoughts
#ios18 #iphone15promax #RCS 
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Apple should’ve BEEN supporting RCS! The fact it took this long is ridiculous.
When should they have added it? Google really stared using it in late 2019 early 2020, so 4 years isn't that long.
@@dominic.j Google has been developing it for eons and it's been a thing on phone since like 2010s. They just started REALLY pushing it for the last 4 years
@@Axyierl This not true at all. The GSMA developed RCS in 2008. In 2015 Google bought Jibe mobile to start working on RCS for android. In 2019 Google released messages with RCS support. Google hasn't been developing it for "eons" and it's most certainly not their protocol. Y'all just make things up.
Bc Tim Cook, wants you to buy an iPhone lol
@@dominic.j2019? I had RCS on my phone in 2016
In Zollotech’s video, RCS worked for group messaging.
Came down to the comments so say this too.
what about if you're on an iPhone and then you port your number to android, but you were added to a group while you had the iPhone and now your number is on android, does it allow you to message the group still and receive messages, so you're still in the group and can send and receive as RCS?
yeah. that other iphone prob isnt on the dev beta
@@abc123fhdithat’s why you turn off iMessage before you move to the Android phone, you unlink your number from iMessage
@@abc123fhdi It should still work as long as RCS is turned on for everyone in the group chat.
1.Your font size on Pixel is humongous.
2. Head over to Google messages and enable IPhone reactions.
I would love Apple to make RCS a different color bubble. Doesn’t need to be iMessage blue bubble… even a different shade of green to make it clear your in RCS.
Yeah, I think a different shade of green would be nice
I was thinking the same thing, different shade of green
Why though? The green is the color of messages, blue was only added for iMessage.
I agree, at least like purple or teal or, as you said a different shade of green
Well the idea is that rcs will completely replace sms right? So the same color bubble won’t matter at the end of the day.
I think purple would be a cool color for RCS on iPhone
They don't want to make it cool
they want rcs without making it look like they actually added rcs
Apple wants to support RCS as quietly as possible so that people would keep buying iphones for messaging.
Apple is making it confusing on purpose as green means SMS/MMS and also RCS, they didn't even change the RCS bubble colour!!
I said in another thread in an another video! 😂
@@MegaCynar🤝🏽
Group message - I believe others have it working.
Yup. Only if someone in the chat has RCS off will it revert back I believe.
🐬 Excellent coverage! I hope the kinks get worked out over the next couple of months but at least I can use these workarounds.
It's about time
🐬🐬🐬 great video, can wait to test this
Thank you and Good luck!
🐬 did you notice that on iPadOS 18 you can manage fonts via settings?
IDK why you enlarged the fonts on Android but not on iOS
Is this intentional?
(So the Android User interface looks weird)
IYKYK...
Update: I just saw that's your Dad's Phone...
Now I get it :)
What I’d like to know more than the responding features and status is encryption. Will we finally have private encrypted messages for SMS & MMS across platform?
I hope this comes out to the next final release! I would be finally able to send videos via text instead of uploading them to youtube first.
The videos are still choppy. It'll make you trim a video. Honestly, I may have to go back to an iPhone because even RCS-RCS, it's still grainy and lower resolution.
@@backnu lol bruh it is still in beta as you can see it's not working that well but eventually will.
Both RCS and iMessage have a 100 MB limit on videos. If your video is over the limit, it's going to compress the video down to 100 MB.
@@exiledfrommyself no, iMessage can accept a considerably larger video without terrible degradation.
@@backnu I didn't say anything about the quality of the video. I said the video will be compressed down to 100MB.
Had to reset my network settings to get it to work with my son’s Samsung Galaxy (who had to turn on his RCS
Typin 🐬 with yall
I say it as gif and not gif
same. I used to say gif, but now I say gif
So far it’s not working in Canada, hoping that next beta version will activate RCS. I would love to see that here in Canada.
That's up to your carrier, not Apple.
Just get an iPhone dude! It’s not going anywhere lol😅
If you find green bubbles confusing just disable MMS messaging and you won’t pay any additional fee for services you didn’t want.
Nobody needs rainbow bubbles for RCS if everybody knows how to manage settings.
I would like to also see the ability to name groups on iPhone that contain Android users. 🎉
🐬 Gif with a hard G because it stands for Graphical so it gets pronounced like graphical. If it stood for something like giraffe, then I'd pronounce it like the peanut butter, but Jiff is already taken.
Do you pronounce Scuba or Laser like how what each letter stands for is pronounced, or is that just a rule for Gif?
@@corvacopia Yes. The first S in scuba stands for Self (same sound) and the L in laser is light (same sound) what’s your point???
I've been waiting for this day. I'll finally switch to iPhone when the 16 comes out
Shouldn't this be a reason to switch to android? 😂
@@maximusg88 not for me, I stayed on android for RCS
When is it coming to Canada?
Do you think itll be on by default for everyone when ios 18 comes out in September?
Knowing Apple, hell no.
Panthers!! 🏆
As of July 9th spectrum Moble is working now
Is it only the USA it’s out on?
What a time to be alive
😒
Do you think stickers will work with RCS between iOS and Android? I love using stickers on my iPhone but I’m worried I’ll be unable to use stickers when talking to someone with androjd
I mean android messegs supports stickers, as long as apple stops being a greedy little shh it should work
But its still weird that it still showed 😂 to the "Hi" even that its on sms when google adapted to that awhile ago
Probably has the option to translate emoji from iPhone off
Got beta 2 update and for some reason I’m back on 18.0 version smh.
Color should be teal!
Finally 🎉
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Nobody seems to know the answer to this: is RCS enabled by default in iOS 18 or do you need to enable it?
What keyboard case is that in the upper right of the video frame?
Clicks Keyboard. Review coming this week
🐬 excellent vid. Great info
whyd you make the font on the pixel so huge lol
What about PDF? Can you send those. MMS won't even allow those.
I am on beta 3 and I don’t have the rcs option in settings. 😢
Finally ! Nice review !!
I would people complaining about RCS not working on their phone apparently didn’t bother with. It literally said it only works in the United States right now and only our Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.
It’s called BETA release for a reason
@@drdrew3 yep, that’s what I said
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They should have automatic one everyboy won't even know we have this
I like how this is not marketed enough. If this works as intended then most people won’t need to rely much on third party apps for chatting. Being an ex android user, RCS was a huge convenience for me. Now I am a sole iPhone user in my family and I have to constantly rely on Messenger and WhatsApp to communicate. The only thing missing now is video calls across iOS and Android devices using their native dedicated apps. And sorry to the tech bros, but I am tired of buggy a*s chat applications that only serve Ads
I pronounce it “GIF”
Does RCS still work on the iPhone if you disable Wi-Fi calling (if already enabled), put phone into airplane mode, and then turn wifi back on and connect. Can RCS messages still be sent in this scenario?
nope it will in pending without internet access and wait for reconnect.
but you can also send as sms in that situation
I think RCS is carrier dependant.
I was able to add an iPhone person to a group. Three android phones and one iPhone person.
Any Xfinity Mobile users have RCS yet?
Apple should make RCS messages a different color to differentiate them from SMS messages. This seems like it could create a lot of confusion. I get why Apple wants to keep the green bubbles from a business standpoint but this isn’t good for users.
At the very least make them light vs dark green
What does it look like when you try to react to an RCS with any emoji outside of the hard-coded reactions that come with RCS? Like reacting with a flag emoji to an RCS, does it show up like a normal reaction or does it say “Reacted with [flag emoji]” like it used to pre-iOS 18?
Google programmed iPhone reactions to be translated so those outside of the usual tap backs may lead to issues until Google addresses these changes. Apple is maliciously complying which is why they also added genmojis to make it an impossible task for Google to fix
Is RCS messaging free? Means is there any carrier charges apply like SMS and MMS? It does require cellular data and WIFI but is it free (like iMessages, signal etc)?
No
It doesn't count against SMS if you don't have an unlimited plan but you do need an active plan to use RCS
Apple: Known for being abnormally late to the game, every time lol
4 years is not that long, that's how it took google to add RCS to Android after they bought Jibe Mobile.
Also, there is no feature that RCS has that iMessage hasn't had since 2011. RCS is strictly about improving communication between Android and Apple devices, it adds nothing to Apple device to Apple device communication.
@@dominic.j well people on the Android side haven been using apps like WhatsApp to communicate. If you think about it, iMessage is just like WhatsApp but developed by Apple themselves. RCS is just a replacement for SMS which was getting old and kind of useless for modern use.
I feel like apple is intentionally having messages switch between RCS and MMS, making Imessage look better in the process
What is difference with WhatsApp? I mean as purpose of it.
Not available in Spain on beta 2
GIF is GIF, it’s not peanut butter (JIF)
Very important uh? 😅😅😅😅😅
It should be on by default. They might as well not even have it if you have to dig into the settings to turn it on. No normal person is gonna know to turn it on. 🙄
Is this only working on iPhone 15s?
No. It’s working on any iPhone running iOS 18 Beta 2 in the US.
In normal Android with Google messages rcs glitches like that always shifting from sms to rcs and rcs to sms back and forth
lol. no. maybe the issue is with your network or carrier or the recipient isn't connected to internet network
I've been using RCS for a couple of years and I haven't had those issues. I'm on Google Fi.
Watched the whole video and I still don't really know what RCS is. Is it Android version of Messages?
It’s basically a standard of messaging that allows for more things to be done like reactions, full resolution images and videos, works off of WiFi etc.
@@9to5Mac Nice, it does sound like a great alternative to offload as much of that stuff to wifi as possible, when it's available. 👍
@@StariusPrimeit’s the standard developed by the GSMA to replace SMS/MMS.
There are websites that have access to vast amounts of data, they're called search engines. Google is peoples go to... try it.
It’s just enhanced version of SMS to be more like iMessage so you can see or reading your message when they are responding. You can send better video files photos, etc. pretty much just like iMessage messenger etc. for android just SMS is old standard. RCS is a new standard. Think of SMS a.k.a. text messaging as analog and RCS and iMessage is Digital.
the font is HUUUGGGEEE
It's his dad's phone...
I just hope everything is E2EE
One big quirk is that since apple announced any picture or any emoji as a reaction to a message, it completely breaks RCS. Now we have to wait on google to integrate those features as micro MMS pictures
No it doesn't. Google messages can already use any emojis as reaction
It's a dev beta... meaning it's not fully baked yet.
I am on the second Beta (22A5297f), but RCS isn't available in germany.
Why ui on android is zoomed? Is that intentional? Coz nobody uses it like that other than old people
It’s my dads phone 😂
But. The bubble is still green😊
cap people in EU not getting it
Could you tell us what RCS stands for first………
Rich communication services
In the time it took you to write the comment, you could have just googled it...
Why the android text look so zoomed?
If you look at the chat on the iPhone, it says 'Dad'... so he's probably borrowed his phone for the video...
It says RCS that's all.
It’s not fully here, it won’t be until September. MVNOs can’t use it yet and not all carriers have turned it on yet. Clickbait
RCS on android use google messages app hence everything is the same for all android phones out there. Although I don't understand why using bigger DPI for android phones? It makes the phone looks trash in UI lol. Should've used the default DPI to show the correct UI of the app on android.
It's his dad's phone... stop crying.
@@tomsam1314 lol. I just said to lower DPI So that the UI will scale properly.
Who's crying here
It’s so bare minimal …
It's a beta...
What is RCS
Sms 2.0. Big images, etc. Real-time
@@fjdkfdfjdf33 about time! Sheesh!
Google it
Too late for Europe. MMS is discontinued for years.
I think we all use some kind of WhatsApp.
But who knows what fashion or hypes will bring in the future.
You shouldn't be getting quotations on the pixel. That's something only iPhone users get
Why no RCS group messages?! 😭
It's a dev beta...
I don’t see what RCS does for iPhone/iPad users. It seems the only people who benefit from Apple supporting RCS are non-iPhone users.
If you pay attention to do the video again, not everything has been fully enabled yet and it benefits iPhone users because now when I iMessage my handful, android friends, I can see when they type. I can see when they read my messages. They can also do the same they can react with emojis and interactive likes and what not And when they send files like videos and photos, I get the full resolution instead of the lower resolution letterbox Limited quality multimedia. So it benefits both parties.
@@aaronlimitless yup. Exactly. Nailed it!
Damn, still no group messaging?!
Work for some people
It's a dev beta... things aren't going to be working properly...
why is the Android display zoomed in like that? I mean it's unnecessarily zoomed in.
Never mind I can see that it's your "dads" phone. Makes sense.
Haha, 😂
The green bubble needs to go
Why? It's not an iMessage...
I have GOOGLE PIXEL 8 PRO and also IPHONE 14 PRO MAX. RCS is so glitchy on Android. I don’t expect it to be any better on APPLE. WhatsApp is the way to go
are you in the US
Yeah, RCS has disconnects but it's mostly more a thing on older phones. RCS has been stable on my Pixel 8 except for the last messages Beta that broke it for me until I went back to stable
Did you make the pixel look ugly? Purposely.... You have the font size way up
It's his dad's phone
What a mess. They didn’t fix the Green Bubbles. They could have just made it a different shade of blue and force World Peace ☮️
Why? It's not an iMessage...
@@tomsam1314 Not that it’s a big deal, but it still looks just like an SMS and that’s where the tension and friction…
The color isn't the problem. It's the features. Hopefully apple makes sure this is implemented better soon
RCS over hyped
Gonna keep this off just to bug my friends that are on Android 🤭 which aren’t many…..that’s actually the reason why I’m keeping it off…..yeah…
You won’t be able to.
Honestly it is vert laughable that apple still keeps the green bubble 🤣🤣🤣like who does it affect,iphone users because the android user on the other hand doesn't see the green bubbles so who is apple tormenting?
So by "complete guide" you don't really mean complete guide.
Can you be my daddy ?
I checked my German carriers website to see how much sending an MMS would cost. 39 cents to German phone numbers, 69 cents to non-German numbers. 69 cents. For every message. Even with the iPhone adopting RCS, it's still gonna be irrelevant for the majority of the world.
But hey, one country has the blue-bubble-green-bubble-debate now sorted. Kinda.
Yeah, like that was the issue. You really thought that?
@@anders95 What issue?
That the US is the only country for which RCS is relevant? Yes, the costs of MMS/SMS in other countries is exactly the reason why that is.
That Apple never implemented RCS sooner? No, that has nothing to do with it.
yall pay for MMS?
No it’s not as RCS sends over data and therefore the German carriers will not be charging to send RCS messages to anyone anywhere in the world as they will not be able to.
Sucks other countries still charge per message. I think the us has been unlimited texts and calls for years now. Iv had unlimited texting since 2007 and believe the unlimited option was made standard around 2011
Tf is RCS?
Fixes texting with Android users
Rich Communication Services the standard developed by the GSMA sets the standards for 2G/3G/4G/5G etc to replace SMS/MMS.
Stop being lazy and Google it...
New paragraph for standard text messaging for android phone makes it more like iMessage or WhatsApp it also enhances standard green bubble on iPhone be more like iMessage
Let's see video. That's where it fails. Like a 3 min video. Not a 3 second clip. That's a joke of a video.
Try writing that again in a structured sentence 🙂
Why would Apple even entertain this? It’s gonna be wonky not because of Apple but because of Android. Stay green, peasants.
It's in beta testing. You can't be this dense. Us Android users already have RCS and for me it works great amongst my friends.
Apple just wanted a monopoly on the market. Text and calls should be universal across the board.
Why RCS seemed to be a half baked product on iOS?
Because it is a DEVELOPER beta. This is nowhere near the final version.
nasty no bueno
So messy... People should just all use WhatsApp
Take your apple crap and throw it in the trash lol
and i dont love cod anymore 🌺💚
What do you play now?
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