My wife and I both have iPhones. When we text each other it uses RCS. When we text other people with iPhones, it uses iMessage. It's been happening for years. Any idea how to fix this?
iPhone 15 Pro
bioneuralnet wrote:
My wife and I both have iPhones. When we text each other it uses RCS.
That should not be happening, unless one of you does not have an internet connection on the iPhone, either Wi-Fi or cellular data based. In those cases, it will default to the carrier powered RCS messaging when sending media or complex messages but will use SMS for simple texts without formatting or features. But this should only be the exception, not the norm.
When we text other people with iPhones, it uses iMessage. It's been happening for years. Any idea how to fix this?
That's the way it's expected to work, so nothing to fix. iMessage will be used between iPhones with active internet connections and iMessage turned on.
iMessage is much more robust than RCS and it will be preferred when an internet connection is available for both devices.
RCS also needs to be supported by both carriers. It's still an emerging option and is limited in certain areas.
There's no reason to want to use RCS unless you are messaging Android devices. iMessage is much more secure and robust.
Yes, I understand that it's supposed to be using iMessage. That's what I want. We both have constant internet connections - either 5g or WiFi - throughout the day. But it's been constant RCS - just with each other - for months. (Before that the messages are all blue, which I suppose means it used to use iMessage.)
Yes, blue bubbles, means it's using iMessage.
Green Bubbles means SMS, MMS or RCS.
The only thing to suggest is that Cell data is turned on when sending messages when away from Wi-Fi.
Messages always uses RCS with my wife, but not with other iPhone users
