I’m trying to talk to someone over text who has an android, but every text i send is being sent as SMS and all of theirs are being sent as RCS. It keeps flipping back and forth and it’s annoying.
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iPhone 11, iOS 18
You are going to want to turn off RCS in your Messages settings, then turn on Airplane mode. After that, restart your phone. Then go back in, enable the RCS setting and THEN turn off Airplane mode and it should work.
This is assuming you have the bug where your contact’s messages come through as RCS, but yours still come through as SMS. And make sure they are the one who sent the most recent message, so the latest chat came through as RCS.
If you’re not already receiving as RCS, I don’t know if this will work. Apple pls fix
I am having a similar issue with a seemingly different cause. I’m on an iPhone 16, and my friend has a Google Pixel. RCS between our phones has been very reliable, but just today I had my phone send a picture as an SMS because it had failed to send as RCS, and now it won’t stop using SMS for specifically that thread despite the fact that RCS works fine for other android owners I text. I can’t figure out how to fix this, as there is no obvious way to me to fix it for a single thread, and Googling it isn‘t helping
zCarolineee wrote:
I have done all of these things nothing has worked. i hate this stupid phone and ios system this is what makes me want to switch to android
You should always get the products that best meet your needs.
Madisonprof wrote:
Where is Apple answer?
You would have to ask Apple, not the other users in this user-to-user forum. However, you might gain some insight reading the 5 pages already posted in the thread you just added to.
has this issue been resolved for people? I have tried all of the suggestions. Resetting the network settings sometimes fixes the issue but it always ends up going back to SMS. My wife will text me with RCS but my phone will only reply with SMS
Yes, after I reset my networks it's always worked. I'm using a 15Pro on ios 18.3.
If yours does but only temporarily I suspect it's your cell provider's fault. It's also possible it's an ios bug, that's why I don't update anymore unless absolutely necessary.
Bikergofast wrote:
Yes, after I reset my networks it's always worked. I'm using a 15Pro on ios 18.3.
If yours does but only temporarily I suspect it's your cell provider's fault. It's also possible it's an ios bug, that's why I don't update anymore unless absolutely necessary.
It works just fine on my iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18.5. But I would have updated any way. The security updates are important.
Why keep green ( text message rcs ) for what what is mean annoying for me
Your post makes little sense in English.
RCS is the replacement for SMS and MMS, and you will get messages using RCS if your carrier and the devices of the users you are contacting support it.
If that is not what you meant please see→How to write an effective Apple Support Communities post
I tried all the suggestions listed and none worked. But I turned RCS off, turned off my phone for 1 minute, turned my phone back on then switched RCS back on and it worked. It was only doing it on one contact and it fixed it.
Having this issue too and sometimes resetting all network settings will fix it, but it seems like moving between wireless and cellular, particularly if I go outside my house where wifi starts getting weak 'triggers' the issue for a particular contact. One time I told it to send as SMS when a normal RCS message didn't go through and now it just wants to always do that for this one contact. Super frustrating.
I think I figured out the trigger.
The affected contact(s), when originally stored (via add new contact from within the Message app) are of type "phone":
But that label type does not exist.
So once the RCS function stops, only switching this label to any existing from the list, restores RCS. I assume that when the contact is initially saved, it's a currier label "mismatch" of some sort.
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That's really interesting, as the contact I was having the issue with does seem to have the label "phone". Another thing I noticed is that sometimes the Messages app will show "SMS" in the text entry box, and if I type a message it'll send as SMS (even though I don't want it to) but if I kill the Messages app and go back to that contact, it'll show RCS again and then send as RCS. So for now I just know to make sure to restart the app so it doesn't flip back to SMS.
Offering a potential solution for the scenario that you are receiving RCS messages from a specific contact, but sending SMS.
To be honest this could have been a combination of things -- I tried, in no particular order:
In the end, a variation on the simple "turn it off and back on" method worked for me, but maybe you also have to try those first. There definitely seems to be some key order of operations depending on the particular flavor of bug you're hitting.
I also tried this today, so no idea how long it will stick -- fingers crossed.
RCS is aweful, and I have disabled on iphone but apple needs to allow me to disable it on my ipad
everyone should disable RCS
and Apple should disable it permanently because it is not needed and full of problems for months and months and months now
Strange. Most users LOVE RCS, as it has fewer restrictions than SMS/MMS. What problem do you have with it; the most common complaint is that they can’t use RCS when they want to.
iPads don’t support RCS at all; when you use RCS (or SMS/MMS) on an iPad it is using the messaging app on your iPhone.
this issue of creating multiple new groups because RCS doesn't work properly has been going on for months and months
its time for apple to just disable it
sms works fine but as long as one person i. the group is using RCS then I have multiple groups of the same peopl
Why do my texts keep switching between RCS and SMS on iPhone?
