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Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions

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Re: Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions

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I don't want to use RCS in supported regions, so I suppose that's fair. I don't like RCS because it appears to eliminate several aspects of SMS that it an acceptable messaging system for me.

Especially with the absence of E2EE, which seems the logical step up from SMS.

Re: Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions

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Apparently I have RCS fully supported. I only learned about this "feature" when I found an SMS I thought I had sent was sat there with an error message. Found out how to turn it off, will never use it again. I don't see how anyone ever thought "upgrading" SMS to be like WhatsApp but less reliable and still no encryption would be an improvement.