RCS - email visibility? since when Samsung Msg turned into Google Msg?

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#311521 23-Jan-2024 22:17

so i discovered today that my Samsung message has magically turned into Google message and the app was trying to send RCS when i was trying to send SMS.

Question - will recipient be able to see my gmail(s) ?

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#3185739 24-Jan-2024 06:44

I found RCS messaging extremely hit and miss if it worked or not. I just turned it off in the Messages app.

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#3185745 24-Jan-2024 07:12

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" Question - will recipient be able to see my gmail(s) ? "

Are you kidding?? You think cause a SMS is sent over RCS there might be a chance they can see / read your Gmail email??

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#3185751 24-Jan-2024 08:00

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" Question - will recipient be able to see my gmail(s) ? "

Are you kidding?? You think cause a SMS is sent over RCS there might be a chance they can see / read your Gmail email??

I'm thinking they're missing something to their post..... because I admit I thought the same thing :D

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#3185752 24-Jan-2024 08:01

Are you sure you don't just have both messages apps installed and you opened the one you don't normally use? I've done that a bit, they both look like similar apps.

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#3185753 24-Jan-2024 08:01

Batman:
so i discovered today that my Samsung message has magically turned into Google message and the app was trying to send RCS when i was trying to send SMS.

Question - will recipient be able to see my gmail(s) ?

No - they are two completely different systems

RCS is just amore advance form of SMS, like Apple iMessage

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#3185755 24-Jan-2024 08:11

Please don't compare iMessage to RCS. iMessage is a closed nightmare.

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#3185758 24-Jan-2024 08:26

gehenna:

Please don't compare iMessage to RCS. iMessage is a closed nightmare.

Please point out on the diagram where the 3rd party RCS apps compatible with Google Messages are.

[My snarky point is they're both as closed as each other, Google just built theirs using an openly documented protocol but don't let anyone else join their network]

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#3185759 24-Jan-2024 08:31

3rd party is carrier dependent, but exists.

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#3185788 24-Jan-2024 09:50

gehenna:

3rd party is carrier dependent, but exists.

There are no 3rd party Android apps that support Google's RCS.

The only slight opening is that Google have released an undocumented API that Samsung's closed stuff can use.

Carriers that were DIY RCS themselves have even given up and moved to using Google's Service (aka Jibe Mobile)

I also wonder if the End-to-End encryption that Google has implemented would even be compatible with the RCS Standard?

The whole thing seems to me much like the MS of old(?) - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We're only up to phase 2 though...

If you're aware of any carrier actually implementing RCS messaging between themselves and Google's RCS service I'd been keen to learn of it.

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#3185789 24-Jan-2024 09:51

clinty:
Batman:
so i discovered today that my Samsung message has magically turned into Google message and the app was trying to send RCS when i was trying to send SMS.

Question - will recipient be able to see my gmail(s) ?

No - they are two completely different systems

RCS is just amore advance form of SMS, like Apple iMessage

Clint

Thanks, so they won't see my email addresses that is linked to my phone?

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#3185806 24-Jan-2024 10:32

No of course not

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#3185836 24-Jan-2024 12:14

Linux: No of course not

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