Google is quietly blocking RCS on rooted devices.

I always disliked RCS, I kept telling people it's a walled garden, mainly controlled by Google

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Good standard you have there. Good features are proprietary to Google and you can't use it while rooted.

Lmao

Every day I am attracted more and more by PinePhone. At least as a secondary device, at first.

Perhaps it's not even close to polished yet with existing distributions, but at least it isn't made to be shitty.

I was wondering why RCS just stopped working the other day

I don't know why, but that a sad news :/

I don't get the RCS hype. I already have apps for rich messaging and RCS offers nothing for me over those apps. What I do appreciate is SMS, which is posed to be killed-off by RCS. I can rely on SMS even when there is no data signal, can't say that for RCS. I wish I had a way to permanently disable RCS on my Pixel 6a, instead I have to keep rejecting the 'upgrade to RCS' dialog.

My husband and I were having an issue yesterday sending an RCS message, they were never getting delivered. They ended up being sent via SMS. It cleared up after an hour or so

I can also confirm it doesn't work on a de-Googled device, even with something like MicroG (though it may work on GrapheneOS's sandbox thing).

What exactly is RCS?

This is shitty, but genuinely I have no idea why people root or run custom ROMs these days. I haven't found an actual use for it since about 2015

Edit: plenty have people have given me fair enough reasons now, thanks