Why is RCS not working between my iPhone running iOS 18 and Android?

I am running iOS 18 on my iPhone 14. RCS is enabled but does not work when messaging my Android phone. I have RCS running on my Android phone and works fine between other Android phones. My iPhone is on the Verizon network while my Android is on T-Mobile. I've tried disabling/enabling RCS on my iPhone a number of times as well as rebooting. Any other suggestions?


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iPhone 14, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 16, 2024 11:05 AM

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Posted on Sep 16, 2024 11:16 AM

Have you confirmed with Verizon that RCS is enabled for your plan and phone? They don't support it on all of their cell plans. Also confirm that they're supporting RCS in an iPhone. As of right now their "Advanced Messaging" page


https://www.verizon.com/support/advanced-messaging-faqs/


says that they support RCS only on select Samsung phones. So this may well be an issue with Verizon, not your phone.


Regards.

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Oct 3, 2024 9:25 AM in response to logan2k

Mine works but it’s really slow and goes out all the time and fails to send maybe apple will fix it I have disabled the feature as it’s not as good as it is on android .

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