That’s what I was thinking, but reading the article it’s apparently not related to sending messages. It’s simpler.
Google blocks RCS on rooted devices. And at the moment they don’t tell the user that at all, it just fails to work. So actively the worst way to handle it.
I mean, I’m on /e/os and RCS just sits there in “Setting up” eventually just uninstalled Google nessages. RCS is obviously key to their global spying program or something. E2E my ass.
Like everything else now, they no longer check any of that directly. It’s all handled via Play Integrity API. If the device fails the Play Integrity check it will fail.
When you find a suitable replacement for GBoard, let me know. Actually don’t, I’ve tried them all and they all fall well short of Google’s prediction algo.
That’s what I was thinking, but reading the article it’s apparently not related to sending messages. It’s simpler.
Google blocks RCS on rooted devices. And at the moment they don’t tell the user that at all, it just fails to work. So actively the worst way to handle it.
Now to see if they mean actually rooted devices, or anything with a non-stock OS.
I mean, I’m on /e/os and RCS just sits there in “Setting up” eventually just uninstalled Google nessages. RCS is obviously key to their global spying program or something. E2E my ass.
The hacky workaround is to send them via Beeper, which connects to Google Messages’ web client.
GrapheneOS stopped working years ago. Silently.
RCS works on GrapheneOS.
I’m glad it works for you but I don’t think it reliably works for a lot of Graphene users:
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/how-do-i-activate-rcs-on-grapheneos/23546/5
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1353-using-rcs-with-google-messages-on-grapheneos/254
Graphene OS works outside of Google’s phone (Pixels)? If no, I am not considering it ever
Like everything else now, they no longer check any of that directly. It’s all handled via Play Integrity API. If the device fails the Play Integrity check it will fail.
Don’t use Google apps
I don’t trust any of them honestly
When you find a suitable replacement for GBoard, let me know. Actually don’t, I’ve tried them all and they all fall well short of Google’s prediction algo.