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What is happening with MMS/SMS

  • 01-11-2021 4:45pm
    #1
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭


    On my phone, when I want to send a message to somebody who doesn't have a smartphone/internet connection, I'll choose a 'text message' as it just requires a phone signal.

    Recently though, I try to do this as usual, but I get the 'not delivered' or 'not sent' notification, and it says that it is waiting for the user to be online, and when i tap on the unsent message, it offers to 'Switch to SMS'.

    So, if it is not SMS, then what is it? MMS? And is it possible to make SMS the default, so that when I send the message, I don't need the user to be online, which is the whole reason for choosing a text message (or what I thought was SMS) in the first place.



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  • #2
    swampy353
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭swampy353


    Chances are you are using Google messages as your text app? If that's the case, the app uses RCS as well as SMS.

    If you want to stop it using RCS, you can click on the three dots on the top right, go settings, chat features and disable chat(rcs) from there. This will mean it only uses sms



  • #3
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118103037#Comment_118103037

    Thanks, this seems to be exactly what I was looking for, and I've just changed the settings.

    I guess that I was using google messages, as it's an Android, but I had always assumed it was just the same old SMS text message as always...until recently, and these non-delivered messages started happening.



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