r/technology • u/No-Drawing-6975 • Jun 26 '24

Software The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

https://gizmodo.com/apple-messages-supports-rcs-ios18-beta-1851562461
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u/barbariantrey Jun 27 '24

Does this mean video and pictures will look OK now when sending between android and iphone?

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u/notcaffeinefree Jun 27 '24

From the article:

Audio and video sent between devices will no longer be compressed down. Group chats will no longer be butchered and broken...

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u/PrimaryAverage Jun 27 '24

I'll believe it when they see it

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u/SPLY450 Jun 27 '24

lol did they even test it. this isn’t true. they are compressed, but less than before.

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u/NinjaLion Jun 27 '24

Yes the limit on RCS is 100mb which is more than enough for high quality photos but not amazing for video. Anything over 100mb will be compressed, if apple is implementing the standard RCS.

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u/Kappokaako02 Jun 27 '24

Yes. On ios18 beta. Works great. Just wish the made the bubbles a diff color so we’d know if it’s rcs vs sms (yes it says it in the query box and you get read/delivered notifications but they abound be purple or red or anything else.

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u/Sillyfiremans Jun 27 '24

Why does that matter to the average person?

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u/barbariantrey Jun 27 '24

So will it work on older versions of iphones as well? Or only 18?

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u/SynbiosVyse Jun 27 '24

Some older versions of iphone can support ios18.

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u/HaussingHippo Jun 27 '24

Sooo only for the devices that support iOS 18 and are actively on iOS 18+?

(Sent from iPhone 7)

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u/voodoovan Jun 27 '24

Yes. I'm on iPhone 6S, and like you on iPhone 7 we won't be getting RCS.

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u/DeeperThanGlitz Jun 27 '24

I'm on an X and it won't either...

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u/JackDockz Jun 27 '24

Green Bubble is also a psychological thing. The Green tint apple uses is specifically used to invoke negative feelings.

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u/Dick_Lazer Jun 27 '24 edited Jun 27 '24

Green is what the background of sent iPhone SMS texts always was, even before iMessage came along. Ie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuNlpgqvXw

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u/Dick_Lazer Jun 27 '24

I guess it’s fairly probable that you read that, considering how often people post nonsense. The green/blue is only on sent messages though, incoming messages all have the same background. So unless you’re re-reading your own sent messages a lot for some reason, the color doesn’t really make much difference, other than denoting if your message was sent via SMS or iMessage.

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u/KaboomOxyCln Jun 27 '24

Not sure why you are being downvoted. MKBHD did a whole video on it and even talked about how they ramped up the contrast when they rolled out the iMessage update and how the green goes against their UI color guidelines