Re: RCS messaging

Stan Brown wrote:

Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app

Ditto, on all counts

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.

I don't know what they look like to the other party, but when leaving me, they don't *look* like two messages, they lookn like a photo with a text caption, in the same message.

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.

Pass ... no verizon here

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.

I'd it by starting typing the RCS message, then click the (+) followed by "gallery" which brings a list of recent images, but also a live camera tile, take the photo from there and it gets added in to the RCS message.
  > 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.

When someone is typing, I dont get any sound, just the "trumpet keys" animation.

5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very
distracting animations.

The smileys, thumbs-up etc that I receive are quite small, some are animated but not distracting.

Good -- What am I missing?

Not having to use WhatsApp to send images for free.