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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do people even use it? As soon as I say that Google owned this I got rid of it while debloating someone else's phone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Many people use it. Regular android users have it enabled in their "Messages" app. But most rooted devices likely does not use RCS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Weird, I've not seen anyone I know use it in the past

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it's similar to how people use iMessage because it's the pre-installed messaging app. Both fall back to of SMS/MMS if the other party isn't using the same closed ecosystem. I.e. Google's proprietary end-to-end encryption or iMessage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use it. I enabled RCS as the primary protocol since too many time critical SMS messages got too delayed.

Just as a matter of curiosity, how do you get rid of RCS specifically?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Go into Google Messages settings and disable the setting.