RCS Text Strand wont hide or silence alerts

Apple, Can we please get this fixed? I mute all my group chats so my phone doesn’t buzz all day. But this is making it very annoying to text with anyone who has an android.

I have the same issue. iMessage only groups and SMS groups hide/silence alerts as they always did, but RCS does not. To make it worse when I turn off RCS I stopped receiving messages from those RCS groups at all. It seems not to just revert back to SMS

Yes this is an issue with iOS and I have had the exact same experience. The day Apple implemented RCS is when ‘Hide Alerts’ stopped working in group chats with iOS and Android users that say RCS. Specifically when I disable and reenable Hide Alerts they stay silenced until an Android user sends a text. After that all messages in the chat resume normal notifications.

The notifications/alerts for these RCS mixed device chats show up even with Personal Focus turned on while no other text notifications do, only DND Focus works to silence these alerts (along with all other notifications).

very surprising for Apple to have missed such a basic testing scenario but either way this needs fixed in the next update.

How has Apple not fixed this. Might be time to make a switch

I suggest providing feedback to Apple as this could be a bug. Use the feedback link, Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Apple will not hear you here. This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish to have Apple know your thoughts, you need to use their feedback link here. Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I was recommended to do the following:

Settings > Notifications > Time Sensitive Notifications … Turn Off / Toggle Off.

Not really sure how it affects other iMessages/RCS/Texts, but it works to not notify me when a RCS Group Thread sends me notifications. I’m sure Time Sensitive iMessages aren’t super important…right?

Anywho, hopes this helps!

It is aggravating! I made a workaround that makes this issue less annoying. Create a focus mode only for text notifications for specific people in the group chats that are affected by this bug. The caveat is that you don't get any notifications from these people, in other groups or individually so for some this might not work. For me this workaround is better than full DND mode but some notifications still get through.

Not only is mine doing this, it’s going a step further and splitting the group chat into two separate group chats. One named, and one unnamed. Turning off RCS solves the issue, but then I don’t get the benefits with another other Android users I text.

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