Group chat issues with Android phones

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Group chat issues with Android phones

I am not sure if this is the correct place to pose this question but I am looking for a solution to our recent group text issues. We are a mixed household with Android and one iPhone. The androids are an S23 ultra and S24 ultra that both use Google messages and the iPhone is an iPhone 13 that uses imessages. Recently the iPhone received an update and the group text does not work with the Android phones. The iPhone can send texts to but does not receive any texts from the androids.

This only happens in group texts not one to one texts. Is there some new setting that must be enabled to now allow Android to iPhone group messaging? I would like to get this fixed as it will also impact my work related messages. Any help is appreciated.

One detail to add, the Android users have used Google messages for at least a couple years so we are not new this app

Posted on Dec 14, 2024 07:59 AM

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Bikergofast

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Dec 14, 2024 08:31 AM in response to Helios_Dog

Same issue I had with my 15Pro. In a group chat with one other apple user and one Google Pixel. All of a sudden I stopped seeing the Pixel users replies but he could see mine. I had to enable RCS to see his, and all his previous replies came through. I had RCS turned off because of the extra battery drain it causes.

Do me a favour and check something for me: When you send an RCS text to someone, does your phone briefly change back to SMS then back to RCS for that conversation?

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Dec 17, 2024 05:11 PM in response to Bikergofast

The iPhone user had RCS turned off. Once that was turned on the chat worked well.

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