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How to Check If You Have Access to Google's RCS Messaging

Yes, its another feature rollout, which means youll be staring at your phone for some unknown amount of time, hoping it reveals to you the setting you can use to turn on something that sounds really awesome on paper.

With expanded character limits , support for read receipts, end-to-end encryption, cross-device syncing, and web-based chat capabilities, its the messaging evolution Android has needed for some time.

While people have found clever workarounds to enable RCS messaging manually on their devices, the easier method is hereassuming Google has rolled out the feature to you. To check, youll first need to make sure you have Googles Messages app installed on your devicestandard on Pixels, but not guaranteed on other Androids .

Tap on Chat Features , enter your phone number, and watch for your Status to move from Setting up to Connected.

Boom, youre now using RCS, and youll be able to partake in all of its features as long as the person youre talking to on the other end also has RCS enabled on their device.

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