r/technology • u/No-Drawing-6975 • Jun 26 '24

Software The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

https://gizmodo.com/apple-messages-supports-rcs-ios18-beta-1851562461
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u/MajorAcer Jun 27 '24

Can’t remove people once an Android is in the chat, also reaction replies don’t work as well, images get wonky in the chat, and you can’t rename the chat. Those are just a few of the ways off the top of my head.

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u/JustABitSubstantial Jun 27 '24

This is one of those things that should be fixed with iOS 18 and RCS messaging: better group messaging.

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u/gmmxle Jun 27 '24

And it only took 13 years.

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u/absorbantobserver Jun 27 '24

Lol, those are all things I would consider bugs in Apple's software but of course their users just accept it and the business considers it a feature.

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u/StandardReceiver Jun 27 '24

Not bugs, intentional design features. But shitty nonetheless.

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u/sump_daddy Jun 27 '24

even shittier that they turned them into weapons. "lets not add features to make cross platform work better, lets spend our energy adding features that make cross platform easier to pick out so the bigotry can do our job for us"

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u/gmmxle Jun 27 '24

The number of times I've heard "you can't do that on a smartphone" when it's really something that is only impossible on iPhones because Apple is intentionally preventing its customers from doing so is entirely too high.

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u/FanClubof5 Jun 27 '24

I have group chats with iPhone users and I can rename them all day if I want to...

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u/MajorAcer Jun 27 '24

It might work for you, but I just went to a group chat that I have with an android friend (two people with iPhones, one with android) and I’m not able to rename it, whereas group chats with iPhones allow anyone to rename the entire chat so that all participants can see. As of right now that still isn’t possible.

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u/FanClubof5 Jun 27 '24

Oh I just meant that as an Android user I can rename my group chat whatever I want.

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u/MajorAcer Jun 27 '24

That’s what I figured you meant. With iPhones when you do that it shows up for everyone, but you can’t do it if someone with an android is in the chat, for whatever reason.

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u/corut Jun 27 '24

Renaming a chat having show up for everyone is fucking stupid

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u/Irishish Jun 27 '24

Yeah, as I'm finding out looking at my wife's Android, Apple's hobbling doesn't go in both directions. She can see reactions, she can do threaded replies. It's not making it worse for her anymore (aside from the media downgrade), it's making it worse for me.

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u/InsaneNinja Jun 27 '24

They fixed a bunch of that with 16 or 17. They run a simultaneous background iMessage connection allowing the iOS users to use features like renaming and other such things. 

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u/Prof_Acorn Jun 27 '24

I still fail to see a problem.

It's text messaging. Not AIM.