Re: RCS messaging

Stan Brown, 2025-04-01 21:19:

Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app
 
A couple of months ago I turned on RCS chats. There are a couple of
downsides, but I wonder if there are any upsides.

Define "RCS chats turned on". RCS is just there - you can use it or not.
But there is no option to turn RCS on or off.

Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on:
1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted
as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a
photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages.

Does not happen here with T-Mobile and a Google Pixel 6a with Android 15.

2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
forwarding but the text is discarded.

What does a feature of Verizon have to do with RCS? Ask Verizon why
*their* "email-to-text" service fails to work properly.

3. If I start a text, then take a photo and share it with the
intended recipient of the text, Messages throws away the text I
typed.

Never happened here.

4. When someone _starts_ typing a response to a text I sent, I get
the sound for a received text, and then I don't know whether to wait
for them to finish and hit send, or go back to what I was doing and
then get interrupted again when they do.

Never happened here.

5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very
distracting animations.
 
Good -- What am I missing?

I don't know. I just can't reproduce your issues with a Google Pixel 6a
and T-Mobile.


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