RCS on Mint Mobile and MVNOs

See this Apple article:

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

noting this part:

A list of services—including RCS— that various carriers provide is here:

Learn whether your carrier supports RCS messaging on iPhone

RCS is not listed as a service Mint provides, and Apple can't make then do it. You are complaining to the wrong company.

Visible is an MVNO and they support RCS. They are also owned by Verizon. Mint is owned by T-Mobile now, so this is 100% T-Mobile’s own choice (likely due to T-Mobile trying to entice people to go to their far more expensive main plans by dragging their feet).

it is completely on Apple.

Every carrier has a "carrier bundle" which explains how the carrier works with the phone. For non-Apple phones these are edited, managed, and released by the carrier themselfs. For Apple phones they are baked into the phone by Apple, and Apple only allows you to have a custom profile if you sell enough apple phones.

If you do not have a custom profile, you inherit the "generic" profile of your parent provider, so GoogleFi uses the "generic" MVNO profile for T-Mobile.

These profiles have two new possible keys in them with apple iOS 18.

`EnableRCSByDefault`

`ShowRCSSwitch`

Both of these default to False. As almost all cariers world wide use google provided backend for RCS known as jibe Apple could set ShowRCSSwitch to `true` by default, and default to the generic Jibe backend when a user switches it on.

Apple could also work with their existing profiles to update them to have this value to true for any provider who offers Jibe to their MVNOs.

Apple could also allow carriers to edit/update their profiles to allow smaller carriers such as Google Fi to have a profile beyond the generic T-Mobile profile.

This is absolutely, and without a doubt, Apples problem, Apples fault, and Apple's job to fix.

Moman19 wrote:

Months???? Well, that's unacceptable. Why????

How would anyone here know why? This is a user to user only forum. We don't work for the MVNO carriers, nor have anything to do with their time table for implementing features. If RCS is an important feature to you, switch to a major carrier who already supports it.

a spokesperson from Mint mobile said it could take months before they support RCS

This is a user to user forum. Mint Mobile does not monitor it. You will need to contact them directly.

It works on my mvno carrier, us mobile

Moman19 wrote:

Months???? Why???? Well, that's unacceptable. Someone from Mint needs to step up to confirm or offer a more realistic timeframe. If not, they will surely loose subs.

Mint is not here in this user-to-user forum. You'll need to contact them directly.

Works on RedPocket!

Months???? Why???? Well, that's unacceptable. Someone from Mint needs to step up to confirm or offer a more realistic timeframe. If not, they will surely loose subs.

This has nothing to do with apple. Why are you complaining here?

Apple made the feature available. If you’re unhappy because your chosen carrier doesn’t support it, switch to a carrier that does.

It’s super frustrating that mint isn’t ahead on this

Sorry, you’re wrong.

Which carrier are you using? I believe Redpocket offers you the choice of all 3 of the big ones.

Thanks but I was asking the red pocket user which carrier he was on. Red pocket uses all three.