RCS on iPhone: What it Means for Android Users! (Explained)

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Apple is finally adopting RCS messaging for iPhones! This video explains what this means for Android users, including the end of green bubbles and exciting new features like read receipts and higher quality media sharing.

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Timestamps
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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - How did we get here?
2:48 - Why Apple did this?
4:15 - How this will impact Android users.
6:15 - How this will influence things in the future.
6:56 - Closing

[eddieevangelista]

As an andriod user and my wife, and all our families rocking iphones, I look forward to high res photos and videos

[paulomateusguerra]

America's blue bubble obsession fascinates me. Amazing.

[kermittherunner]

No one cares about blue or green bubbles. All we care about is higher resolution images and videos 📹

[jerkytoo]

I've been an iPhone user since I first started using smartphones, and I'm glad to see that Apple finally got in line with RCS. I hate getting low-quality photos from my Android-suing brothers. I used to think it was a problem with Android before I realized that it was really due to Apple being resistant to adopting a common standard.

[Travisharger]

As someone that uses an iPhone as his primary driver, I’m stoked about this. Even tho, 90%+ of my friends and family are on iPhones, it will def make things way easier for talking to the few that are on android.

[libertymartin]

I've honestly just wanted read receipts and typing indicators, and good quality videos and pics, if we get that, I am happy LOL.

[de_mainvulcan]

As a lifelong Android user thats far from the peer pressure and cover of intense Apple marketing. Its incredible to me how the green bubble debacle has made Apple users think Android devices are stuck in the past. When in fact, Apple are the ones creating that impression.

Finally, you didn't mention the DOJ anti trust lawsuit as a possible reason for adopting some form of RCS

[Sassquatch]

All I want, is the ability to leave iMessage group chats from both Android & iPhone.

[v]

It's unfortunate that Google Messenger is the only real RCS app option for Android. I would love to see an open source alternative as soon as that's tenable.

[benjamin]

I just want one of these larger channels to point out the fact that an entire OS update isn't required in order to update a messaging app.

[justinadams]

I have tried iPhones in the past and I was never a big fan. I'm a die hard android fan and I think that apple adopting rcs is a big step forward in breaking ever so slightly out of their proprietary standards.

[Sal]

There blue and green on iMessage indicates whether it's sms or internet messages. This can occur between iPhones as well when you are not using the internet to send messages.

[bradavon]

What it means for Android users in The USA you mean. The rest of us already use a cross platform messaging app.

[dontmindme]

An actual standard for E2EE would be nice. It'd be nice if Apple could make that happen. Also would be nice to use RCS completely de-googled on Android, but I don't know how likely that is any time soon…

[GaryV-ph]

What's needed now is cross app compatibility. So you can message people using different messaging apps, like you can with emails.

[Lexsoufz]

This was the change I needed to fully give back into android. I prefer android but use iOS for convenience of messaging. We are free!

[GaryRicker-sfek]

Thank you for this video! I work for one of the main carriers in the US and with the iPhone 16 launch this month, this is a big deal. As an employee of one of the main carriers, I required to use an iPhone for work, but I am a Samsung user for my personal choice. As you can imagine this is a topic of conversation, especially with every team I work with.

[eunicembeve]

The only texts in my phone are from network promotions, OTP, bank & e-wallets confirmations. All communication with friends and relatives is mainly through 3rd party apps. The last time texting was a thing was around 2011

[bar]

although i'm not a fan of how apple uses Imessage, I do like how apple is pushing the universal RCS profile, as a counter balance to google pushing there own version

[psppablo]

In Spain we don´t use RSC a lot, that sms and rcs on Android would be on separated tab because we have a lot of coustomer spam, sms for codes to entry or sms if you have a call lose