@frankie or you could use Signal.app and have a secure open message platform that has none of the problems of RCS, WhatsApp, or iMessage. Want to sent me a message, you can send it via Signal, or you can email me. Simple.

#RIPSMS #RCS #GetSignalApp

@techhelpkb except it isn't, because it is broken and too little too late. RCS promises much but delivers nothing. There are no RCS apps besides Google Messages and now iPhone Messages. Neither do end to end encryption between each other. Images and videos are still heavily compressed. Messages require going through Google's servers because no carrier runs their own RCS servers. Google is wrapping messages sent between two Google message users to add encryption, but it doesn't work reliably. In fact, since the last update notifications don't even work at all. Messages fail to deliver all the time. The only use of SMS now is stupid companies using it for activating or authentication requests, except that it isn't secure and has been hacked repeatedly. RCS is garbage and every carrier knows it. Get Signal.app and stop using closed broken systems.

#RIPSMS #RCS #GetSignalApp

My Google Messages review...

"RCS is a broken promise. Images still heavily compressed, end to end encryption only between Google Messages users, worst of all notifications don't work since last update. Provided feedback but Google pretends their app isn't broken. Lots of others complaining about same problems. Suggest people go back to Textra or I'm loving Microsoft SMS Organizer. I now only use SMS for account verification and telling people to reach me on Signal. Even the FBI says not to use SMS anymore. RCS is dead."

#RCS #SMS #RIPSMS #SignalApp