The divide between Android and Apple messages will likely remain for some time, unless officials at Apple have some sort of mind-changing revelation that changes their entire force-of-nature understanding of keeping customers in the fold. Otherwise youll end up having to use Android Messages for RCS. RCS still has a massive hurdle in adoption before it goes global, for all phones, when there's still a force as giant as Apple with the iPhone that will not likely adopt said protocol. Carrier Services is the IMS app only for Googles Android Messages (to add RCS Chat in Android Messages if your carrier isnt enabling it already.) If youre not getting RCS in Samsung Messages, contact Google FI and put in a ticket to request support.
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If you head back to our How to escape iMessage article from back in 2016, you might find your way out. Moving your number from Messages, as it appears on an iOS device, is still a sort of a task in and of itself.
Those users working with an Apple device still have iMessage to work with. For the last several years, Google has been pushing a new communications protocol called Rich Communication Services, or RCS. In the US, that only leaves one large cohort that will not use RCS. It’s the final step for making RCS Chat the next-gen standard designed to replace SMS the default experience for Android. SEE TOO: RCS Standard now global: What that means for you Beginning next year, Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android Messages as the default texting app on all Android phones it sells. Google's plans started making a bit more sense when it signed a deal with T-Mobile in May 2020, which made Google Messages the company's default SMS/RCS app across all Android devices.
Now that Verizon has joined said push, Google – and the rest of the RCS global initiative – have very little left in the way of total world coverage. Back in November of 2016, we suggested that Google's RCS push will never work without Verizon.