iPhone can’t send or receive text from Android users. Will update 18.1?solve this issue?

Beach-Writer wrote:

I updated. Did not help. Now RCS is “waiting for activation”. ATT, my carrier, can’t do anything on their end to activate it due to security reasons. This is the same company who remote viewed my phone this past weekend.

Saturday and Sunday, all I did was talk to Apple and ATT. FOR HOURS.

ATT has an escalation ticket for me. Yeah. Hmmm.

I’ve done everything. Toggle this, restart this, new eSIM. It’s 2024. Seriously, this matter can’t be resolved???

You should be asking AT&T why they can't resolve it. Get on their forum.

Beach-Writer wrote:

Does anyone know or tried the new update iOS 18.1 to fix the texting issues with Android users? I can’t send or receive a text from Android users. I’m running iPhone 11. 18.0.1

This has nothing to do with Apple, iphone or ios, SMS is your phone carrier feature, report it to them.

Beach-Writer wrote:

I have.

Well, you pay your phone carrier a monthly fee to user their service, cellular data, calls, SMS and MMS, if they can't fix the issue, then you're out of luck.