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TL;DR
- RCS messaging on iPhones is now lastly out there to Google Fi subscribers.
- The function is rolling out to suitable iPhones with the iOS 18.4 replace.
- Customers can allow it by tapping on the RCS Messaging toggle within the Messages app settings.
Apple lastly jumped on the RCS bandwagon with iOS 18 final yr, permitting iPhone and Android customers to speak with richer messaging options as an alternative of sticking to plain outdated SMS. Nonetheless, RCS assist in Apple’s Messages app was not out there to all iPhone customers, with solely Verizon, AT&T, or T-Cell subscribers getting entry at launch. That’s altering with the newest iOS replace.
Apple rolled out iOS 18.4 to supported iPhone fashions yesterday. As noticed within the beta launch, the replace allows RCS for Google Fi subscribers. Google confirmed availability in a current assist submit (through 9to5Google), highlighting that Google Fi subscribers can now make the most of “high-res photograph and video sharing, typing indicators, and browse receipts” whereas chatting with Android customers.
Google Fi subscribers utilizing an iPhone can allow RCS by navigating to the Messages possibility in iOS settings and tapping on the toggle subsequent to the RCS Messaging possibility. The function might take a second to activate with customers seeing a “Ready for activation…” message.
Google Fi notes that “RCS on iPhones are an merchandise of your knowledge utilization. If you’re on a limiteless knowledge plan, you’ll not incur any further prices by sending RCS messages.” Nonetheless, customers on the Versatile plan will incur further prices per GB of knowledge used.
Though the iOS 18.4 beta indicated that RCS assist would additionally make it to iPhones on T-Cell MVNO networks following the replace, we’re but to see official bulletins relating to the identical.
