Are there any rumors or updates if Samsung messages will adopt RCS messaging services? Not a fan of Google messages, hoping for Samsung to hop on the wagon and join RCS.
Hello, handreasonn. Samsung Messages already supports RCS. You can enable it by opening the Messages app, tapping on the three vertical dots at the upper right corner, tap on Settings > Advanced messaging, and toggling on Advanced messaging. Do note, however, that this feature will only be available if your carrier supports RCS and will only work if the recipients you're messaging also have RCS enabled if they have the feature. Hope this helps.
Samsung is not done with Samsung Messages it is a carrier enabled feature and a lot of carriers like AT&T and TMobile for instance only allow RCS Messaging via Google Messages this is why they first started making Google Messages default and then not Pre-Installling on devices because people are confused by having 2 Messages Apps and then not being able to use RCS Messaging I myself have Spectrum/Verizon and have RCS Messaging using Samsung Messages
Hello, handreasonn. Samsung Messages already supports RCS. You can enable it by opening the Messages app, tapping on the three vertical dots at the upper right corner, tap on Settings > Advanced messaging, and toggling on Advanced messaging. Do note, however, that this feature will only be available if your carrier supports RCS and will only work if the recipients you're messaging also have RCS enabled if they have the feature. Hope this helps.
The RCS feature is not something I can "turn on" in my A32 5G phone like the commenter above said going into Advanced messaging.. But nevertheless a certain amount of RCS features are already active and working on my phone, but not for all contacts. I have MetroPCS which is known as "Metro by T-Mobile". Samsung Messages in my opinion just still looks better than Google Messages. I tried Google and did not like it all!
Recently when I would open my default and only sms/messages app, Samsung Messages, I was getting the recommendation every few days to upgrade to Google Messages for a better richer safer etc experience. I repeatedly selected "not now". Eventually I decided to download Google Messages and try it out. But it was clear to me that it is NOT as good as Samsung Messages. With Samsung Messages I already have some amount of RCS but only with contacts who I believe are also using Samsung or certain Android phones. These RCS features include seeing when they are typing (with the moving dots/periods), in the chat/conversation screen, and seeing when my text messages are both "Delivered" and "Read". However in Samsung Messages the only RCS feature that is lacking, which Samsung apparently doesn't want to add, is the "reaction" feature, using emojis, "likes", hearts etc on messages. In Google Messages I saw right away that it only had "RCS chat" features for only the same contacts for whom I have it in Samsung Messages, and not for any other contact. And in Google Messages it doesn't display the words "Delivered" and "Read", instead it uses a variation of small double-checkmarks that are different color to indicate when a text message is sent, delivered, or read. This is VERY plain and boring to see! So maybe the only plus/advantage of Google Messages would be that I could have the "reaction" feature, but only with the few Samsung/Android contacts... And not with any other contacts who are on iPhones or other phones.
Also, in Samsung Messages I can customize ALL the chat conversation screens, regardless of the contact and regardless of whether I have RCS features with the contact or not. THIS is NOT possible to do in Google Messages!
Another difference, in Samsung Messages there is a dedicated Trash bin folder that keeps deleted messages for thirty days, and I have the option to recover any deleted messages during that time. In Google Messages there is NO Trash, instead any deleted messages are immediately and permanently deleted and unrecoverable.
One other difference, albeit a minor one, is that in Samsung Messages when I have unread messages it will show a notification at the top of the main screen, and this notification will remain there until I decide to view those unread messages. I did not see this feature in Google Messages.
And finally, as soon as I made Google Messages the default app and opened it, I saw right away that many of my text messages were missing from each chat conversation! Some commenters here have said that the missing text messages probably were just misplaced in the Spam folder and that they weren't gone, but I didn't notice the Spam folder and so I hadn't checked that..
In any case it was my view that Google Messages is at the moment definitely NOT a better experience than Samsung Messages. There are more features in Samsung Messages, and there isn't much more RCS available in Google Messages as I was made to believe there would be. So I switched back to Samsung Messages as the default app, and I immediately uninstalled the Google Messages.
And I also no longer get the recommendation to upgrade to Google Messages.
As long as the Samsung Messages app remains on my phone, and remains available in the Galaxy Store, and remains functional and thus "supported", then I will keep using it as my default messages app on my phone. I see no reason at all to switch to Google Messages, unless Google adds all the other features I mentioned above that are in Samsung Messages. Just my opinion.
