I’m trying to talk to someone over text who has an android, but every text i send is being sent as SMS and all of theirs are being sent as RCS. It keeps flipping back and forth and it’s annoying.
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iPhone 11, iOS 18
This finally worked for me!
“You are going to want to turn off RCS in your Messages settings, then turn on Airplane mode. After that, restart your phone. Then go back in, enable the RCS setting and THEN turn off Airplane mode and it should work.
This is assuming you have the bug where your contact’s messages come through as RCS, but yours still come through as SMS. And make sure they are the one who sent the most recent message, so the latest chat came through as RCS.
If you’re not already receiving as RCS, I don’t know if this will work. Apple pls fix”
***!!! This is the only thing that worked for me! I reset network settings, restarted, turned off iMessage, SMS and did everything else suggested in this thread and finally the airplane mode with RCS disabled restart worked for me. THANK YOU!
i was also having this issue, but i resolved it by marking the message unread and then it switched back! no need to restart your phone or network settings ☺️
You should try the Network Reset solution I posted a few weeks ago, it's working for many of us permanently.
This is happening to me as well since the ios 18.1.1 update last friday. Sometimes I send a msg and it goes by RCS but mostly its going by sms. My boyfriend's msg are coming to me as rcs but when i reply it sends as sms. Prior to the ios update everything was by RCS both ways with zero issues. I wish I hadn't updated the ios...Apple needs to fix this crap
I had the same issue my girlfriend had a iPhone then switched to Android my iPhone 15 was sending RCS fine until it kept sending as SMS
If you have dual SIM have BOTH ON WHILE RCS IS ACTIVATING AFTER NETWORK RESET I have a T-Mobile SIM for backup and Verizon as Primary make sure your second SIM is the one using for Cellular
Before you reset network iCloud backs up any saved Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks
Make sure your second line is used for data
THEN reset network
Having this issue too and sometimes resetting all network settings will fix it, but it seems like moving between wireless and cellular, particularly if I go outside my house where wifi starts getting weak 'triggers' the issue for a particular contact. One time I told it to send as SMS when a normal RCS message didn't go through and now it just wants to always do that for this one contact. Super frustrating.
monist wrote:
Notice how, on this site hosted by Apple, no help or suggestions are given by anyone from Apple.
This is not Apple Support. This is a user-to-user forum, something that was explained in the Terms of Use we all agreed to when we registered. Apple's participation here is largely limited to making sure we all behave.
If you want help from Apple, use the Support link at the bottom left of every page of this forum.
Madisonprof wrote:
Where is Apple answer?
You would have to ask Apple, not the other users in this user-to-user forum. However, you might gain some insight reading the 5 pages already posted in the thread you just added to.
Bikergofast wrote:
Yes, after I reset my networks it's always worked. I'm using a 15Pro on ios 18.3.
If yours does but only temporarily I suspect it's your cell provider's fault. It's also possible it's an ios bug, that's why I don't update anymore unless absolutely necessary.
It works just fine on my iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18.5. But I would have updated any way. The security updates are important.
I think I figured out the trigger.
The affected contact(s), when originally stored (via add new contact from within the Message app) are of type "phone":
But that label type does not exist.
So once the RCS function stops, only switching this label to any existing from the list, restores RCS. I assume that when the contact is initially saved, it's a currier label "mismatch" of some sort.
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RemovetheCamera wrote:
Both my wife and I have turned it off on our iphones but there is no way to turn it off on her ipad
You can't turn it off on your iPads because iPads aren't capable of either SMS or RCS. You can have both types of messages forwarded from your phone. If you turn RCS off on your phones, you won't get them on your iPads.
but still, others who group text are using RCS and/or haven't updated to the latest iOS and that is their right to do so
They can also turn it off if they want to.
as long as they exist on the group the issues persist
That's really an SMS/iMessage issue.
And no I am not blocking my family or telling them to turn it off
Why would you have to do that? If you turn off RCS, messages from people using RCS will be delivered to your phone using SMS/MMS.
Apple should make RCS work regardless of the situation
RCS is not an Apple protocol. If you want to use something that Apple has control over, use iMessage.
RCS is just poorly implemented and causes a lot of problems
You seem to be in a minority. For most people, it solves a lot is issues.
Have you given your feedback to Apple?
You just added to a long discussion of RCS and SMS. I suggest reading the whole 5 page thread for insights.
My iPhone keeps defaulting to SMS instead of RCS. I have SMS disabled and the RCS is active but it still defaults to SMS. I’ve restarted my phone, I have not had any issues with RCS until recently and now I can’t get it to come back.
I just realized that my messages are also sms when I have rcs enabled. I turned my phone off an on, it’s still the same. I updated my phone also so I’m figuring that’s when it happened. It wasn’t like this before the update.
This is happening to me, too — only with one contact however. It started as soon as the new update hit, which auto updated. This needs to be fixed! I keep restarting my phone, sometimes that helps but only for a little bit.
And other weirdness-my daughter (iphone 11) is receiving some of my texts as emails. Also, I sent a pic to a friend (iphone 12 mini) last night. She saw it, then it disappeared from her messages, then it reappeared.
Apple, get this fixed NOW!!
Why do my texts keep switching between RCS and SMS on iPhone?
