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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The people using RCS, does the phone have to be on for it to work? If you're using the web app can it just skip the phone entirely?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It does require, and go through, the phone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Phone needs to be on since messages are stored on the device

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, the phone need to be on. If the phone you are sending an sms to is not on, the application fallback to standard SMS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the application fallback to standard SMS.

it doesn't by default

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is good from a security perspective, but also pretty annoying from a QOL perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

therefore it can be enabled in settings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's buggy and often fails to fallback even with the option turned on. And the default behavior should be "prompt to resend as SMS and offer to enable the option" not "sit on your hands and look moronic when you can't send RCS". This is embarrassingly bad software.

[–] passably9 1 points 1 year ago

All messages are relayed through your phone. So yes, it needs to be active