r/UniversalProfile

For me, I only have two main reasons.

The largest one is the ability to actually have interactive and better messaging experiences with others including family. In the US, we don't do WhatsApp or any third party messaging for the most part. I have an Android phone, the S24U. And all my family's devices are iPhone, and every one of my friends are also iPhone except one person... One. It was such a miraculous experience when iPhone finally adopted UP 2.4 and seeing my mom send a video she took while on vacation and seeing the image sharp and high quality.

The second one is kind of a little petty. I personally feel as if iMessage is mostly responsible for the over proliferation of iPhones, especially in my age group, where adoption rate is 70%-80%. Teens is 90%. Hearing of the blue bubble vs green bubble stories has me flabbergasted that people are like this and Apple knows this and openly exploits it, with actual data showing that a quarter of people lose out on potential dating relationships the moment the iPhone user sees the other person with a green bubble and friends get ostracized from group chats. Thankfully, my family members, my age, have said they really couldn't care less about any of that.

So, I've been hoping that when these features are adopted, I can actually get to experience better stock messaging with others especially my family, and all this external social crap goes away as the messaging experiences cross platform becomes equal, or at least better. Then I can also see more people over time with Androids that I relate and talk with about and hear less about this blue green bubble crap. Business RCS messaging also seems cool, but that's a non factor for me.

has anyone else had issues with rcs failing activation failing or on google messages said not connected? or stuck? all my conversations r sms when they used to be rcs

The more we can provide feedback, push and show we care about RCS in HUGE numbers the more Apple sees RCS is something people care about (even if it’s just us passionate people from this subreddit haha).

We all were surprised Apple did this for RCS in the beta so there’s hope! But we’ve gotta make use of this “gift” Apple gave us here.

And maybe android users with a spare iPhone, try the beta out and provide feedback too! It can only help the cross platform integration