RCS won’t allow users to turn off certain things like read receipts. That’s problematic for some. I personally like them but I know people who don’t who I have unfortunately had to inform that they have to turn off RCS altogether to get rid of them even though there’s a setting to turn off read receipts.
We tested this extensively. On Android we all have the setting to turn off read receipts. It’s broken. It does not turn off rear receipts for us. Our phones run the gamut from pixel 9 pro/+ to a pixel 5. To get ready receipts to go away we had to turn off RCS completely.
They’re referring to iOS devices, the Read Receipts toggle on iOS is for iMessage not RCS.
I personally left RCS off until Apple addresses this.
Edit: Learned google developed the RCS protocol, now I’m going to leave it off indefinitely until it’s fully open sourced and not funded by them with E2EE.
RCS won’t allow users to turn off certain things like read receipts. That’s problematic for some. I personally like them but I know people who don’t who I have unfortunately had to inform that they have to turn off RCS altogether to get rid of them even though there’s a setting to turn off read receipts.
What?
We tested this extensively. On Android we all have the setting to turn off read receipts. It’s broken. It does not turn off rear receipts for us. Our phones run the gamut from pixel 9 pro/+ to a pixel 5. To get ready receipts to go away we had to turn off RCS completely.
They’re referring to iOS devices, the Read Receipts toggle on iOS is for iMessage not RCS.
I personally left RCS off until Apple addresses this.
Edit: Learned google developed the RCS protocol, now I’m going to leave it off indefinitely until it’s fully open sourced and not funded by them with E2EE.
It is for both I think, as I do not get read receipts from some people with iOS and some I do.