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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by cesarb on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:06PM (#38295538)
> Plus, unless they fixed it, if you enable RCS and then regret it and disable it again, anybody who texted with you via RCS will no longer be able to text you at all.

On a relative's phone, the messages app simply enabled RCS automatically without asking (and displayed a screen proudly saying it did so). Does that means that this phone will never receive SMS again from RCS users, even though we have carefully always answered "no" when it asked whether it should enable RCS (and quickly disabled it again once it enabled automatically)?

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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by JohnFen on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:10PM (#38295594)
For me, it only affected phone numbers that I had exchanged texts with that also had RCS enabled. Phones that didn't have it enabled, or numbers I had not exchanged texts with, were unaffected.

This was quite a while ago. They may very well have fixed the issue since then.

And yes, I noticed they enable RCS by default. Since then, the first thing I have done with new phones is to disable RCS. If you do that before sending/receiving any texts, then there is no issue.

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