So this is a weird thing I noticed recently: Whenever I send a group text to my siblings, if the text contains a link, they don’t receive the text. But they can get my group texts without links, and they can get messages with links if I send only to one person.
Extra info: I use Android, and they both use iPhone. It’s just so weird to me. Why only messages with a url? And why only with group chats?
RCS is Rich Communication Services, it’s a newer protocol that is end to end encrypted and adds more features like replying to a specific message, emoji reactions, typing indicators and read receipts if the user has that turned on, and sending more types of files.
Your phone is supposed to check if the other person’s phone supports RCS before sending a message using it, and automatically resend via SMS if an RCS message doesn’t go through, but it doesn’t always work.
In the default Google messages app it is the first option at the top of settings.
I see… Everyone on my contacts probably doesn’t have RCS, and that’s messing with me. They’re all on old-ass hardware and not even able to get the newest Android version.