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How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone (www.cnet.com)
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[–] drislands@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A variety of small but useful features. Typing indicator, reactions, read receipts, and larger media limits. I'm sure there's more, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can send rcs messages over Wifi even if you don't have a cell signal, like iMessage. You can also get iPhone emoji reactions to messages instead of getting a text message saying "X hearted this," or w/e

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

SMS has read receipts too. I'm not sure I care about any of the others.

[–] DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago

The best that the SMS protocol can tell you is whether the message was delivered and even that isn't a requirement. SMS has delivery receipts, it does not have read receipts.