I thought RCS was supposed to enable me to receive high-quality videos via text?

[PacificaBren]

So I'm really sick and tired of iPhone users sending me high-resolution videos via text message and not understanding those are going to come through looking like pixelated dog waste on my Android phone.

People keep claiming if I enable RCS, I will be able to receive full-resolution videos via text.

OK, first challenge: I can't enable that in Samsung Messenger, because my carrier, T-Mobile, only supports RCS for Google Messenger.

So I switched my default texting app to Google Messenger and then opened the settings. Lo and behold, RCS is already enabled by default.

But I just had two different friends with iPhones text me some videos, and they still look like pixelated dog waste!

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some other setting I need to deal with?

Or is it simply a false claim that RCS allows Android phones to receive full-resolution videos?

This is on a Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, model SM-S711U1, running Android 14.

Thank you, as always, for your help!

 

[Clementine_3]

Your iPhone friends also need to have RCS enabled, it's in iOS 18 but that has to be manually updated, it's not automatic. A lot of people didn't, or won't, update. It's, again, an Apple issue.

 

[PacificaBren]

Your iPhone friends also need to have RCS enabled, it's in iOS 18 but that has to be manually updated, it's not automatic. A lot of people didn't, or won't, update. It's, again, an Apple issue.

Thank you! I will look into this.

 

[Dannydet]

Have all of your iPhone friends switch to Androids and all of the issues will disappear!
As Clementine_3 stated, it's an iPhone issue, not android....

 

[mikedt]

Some useful information here from Apple...

What is the difference between iMessage, RCS, and SMS/MMS? - Apple Support

Learn why some of your message bubbles are blue or green.

support.apple.com

All your iPhone friends will be using iMessage by default.

 

[Clementine_3]

Ooooo, looks like an update from Apple may have rolled out finally. All my iPhone peeps are showing RCS chat now.