RCS messages - text history

[Kokopeta13]

When the Samsung support of RCS stops, what will happen to my text history?  I have chats from a few people that I would like to preserve.

[CasualMember]

It will be transferred to Google Messages.

[realaud]

Your text history should not be affected. If you are nervous about losing stuff, download SMS backup and restore from the Play store and back up your texts. You can back them all up, or select specific chats. You can scedule regular backups.

[JS0850]

If you keep the Samsung app, I'm sure the history will still be there. I'm sure there's a way to back up your text through Samsung Cloud or Google.

[Dan2023]

I'm a little confused by your question. Perhaps you can clarify your inquiry for me.

Text messages, whether RCS, MMS, or SMS were never designed to be stored long-term like an email or Word document. With estimated 18.7 billion text messages that are sent each day world wide that's a lot of data to store on servers, most of which is not important information. For this reason, carriers delete text messages after thirty days, so after that time, they only exist on your device or on a backup server of your carrier's for a limited time, as required by law.

If you wish to 'save' a text message long term, it is necessary to save them in another format, either as a document, via copy/paste, or as photo by making a screenshot of the message.

[Kokopeta13]

In the phone settings you can choose to have the texts auto delete or not.  For the most part I go in and manually delete them but as I stated, I have a couple text threads I would like to preserve.  

I was mostly checking to see if access would stop being supported after January 6th (the date Verizon said it is no longer supported).  If not, then I know I need to go in and manually save any photos or sections of text. 

[Robin621k]

Don't you download the photos from a text message?

[Dan2023]

You need to download and save the photos if you want to keep them.

After thirty days the messages that you see exists only on your phone unless copied, and saved elsewhere.

Setting aside any changes to the Samsung Messages app, as stated before, text messages are only held by carriers for thirty days, and this has always been the case since they were invented. Should you loose or replace your phone, your photos and messages would most likely be lost if older than thirty days.

I do not have Verizon as my carrier and cannot speak to their announcement. Would be best to speak with them about their services.

That said, my impression is that the Samsung Messages app is not being discontinued and should function as it always has, with MSM/MMS texting and RCS texting if available by your carrier.

The history that you are seeing exits only on your phone and cannot be retrieved from your carrier if removed. Back up and save those messages and photos that you wish to keep regardless of the January 6th warning.

[Dan2023]

Another Member has stated elsewhere that they received a message from Verizon that they are no longer going to support RCS text messaging.

Samsung Messages is SMS/MMS (and only RCS if your carrier supports it) text messaging, so nothing should really change; however, if you want RCS, then you'll need to switch over to Google Messages and your old text history will not port over.

[meself]

If there's still thr option at top of Samsung messages says yo update or something like that it should transfer texts ovet