Google has been urgent Apple to undertake RCS for years and even when Cupertino relented (maybe when it turned clear that the EU would get entangled), Google nonetheless had the audacity to poke enjoyable at Apple. However perhaps Google ought to be focusing by itself backyard as a substitute of making an attempt to be humorous.
Do you know that Put on OS smartwatches with LTE can not ship RCS messages? Effectively, they will’t – RCS messaging from the watch solely works when it’s related to a telephone. That may change with an upcoming replace to the Messages app.
In a teardown of Google Messages v20240926 beta, the Android Authority crew found some flags which can be laying the groundwork for standalone operation of RCS messaging on Put on OS watches.
bugle.enable_wear_standalone_rcs
bugle.enable_wear_standalone_rcs_settings
bugle.enable_wear_standalone_voice_message
Be aware: “bugle” is the interior title for Google Messages.
By the seems to be of it, the watches will be capable to deal with not solely commonplace textual content messages, but additionally voice messages despatched over RCS. Which means that you’re going to get to maintain wealthy messaging if you go away your telephone at dwelling (assuming you’ve an LTE-enabled watch, after all).
It’s not clear whether or not this replace will assist non-LTE watches – this could make a distinction in circumstances when the watch loses connection together with your telephone however remains to be related to Wi-Fi. We’ll have to attend and see.
