iPhones now support RCS messaging on 16 US carriers, enabling features like read receipts and typing indicators. But some carriers are still holding out—find out if yours made the list.

Here’s the list of US carriers that now support RCS messaging on iPhones:

  • AT&T
  • C Spire
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Cricket
  • FirstNet
  • H20 Wireless
  • Metro by T-Mobile
  • PureTalk
  • Red Pocket
  • Spectrum
  • T-Mobile
  • TracFone / Straight Talk
  • US Cellular
  • Verizon
  • Visible
  • Xfinity Mobile
  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Fuck RCS, it’s too little, twenty years too late.

    Why would I want to use a “new” messaging service that’s ass-backwards by being hardware/device bound? It’s completely antithetical to design concepts from 30+ years ago?

    XMPP provided more, 20 years ago.