Any idea how long this has been going on? I have an unlocked bootloader but am running a standard upgrade version on my phone and it was never rooted. Some time in the last few months I started getting warnings that my texts weren't going through and was asked if I wanted to switch to SMS... yeah ok I'd never heard of RCS before so yes please use SMS for all of my messages, and everything worked fine.
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Supposedly this isn't doing any warning or asking to fall back. The messages just fail silently. I'd root and use the play integrity hider magisk module.
imagine using an sms app that requires network access
So I read that the RCS Apple wants to implement isn't exactly the RCS Google is using.
My hope is that once Apple starts using (a hopefully open standard) RCS, then everyone will switch to that and everyone everywhere can communicate securely.
and yet I get crap about complaining about android and rooting it when this shit literally happens, on the regular.
Im sorry, i want to like android, but it's awful, and genuinely sucks.
Wait.... It sucks cause they are actively working to break it. Not because its flawed. Its no different than apples stupid bubbles.
I think the point is that if it can be sabotaged by a central authority, it sucks. Both Apple and Google suck.
I'm on GrapheneOS. It just never verifies my number for RCS, so everything is just sent as SMS/MMS. Has been going on for a couple of months now. I have no idea why as it does not remotely harm them whatsoever, and hurts their adoption. I'm waiting for a non shitty RCS app to come out, hopefully one that's FOSS.