iPhone wil not send an RCS message after updating to iOS 18

fuzzy wrote:

syaoran wrote:

fuzzy wrote:

IMS is under carrier version which is under SIM or ESIM. Apple said they don't have control over RCS when it comes to that. I just got off the phone with a  T-Mobile rep about the status of getting this fixed and they said the same thing; that is not Apple's control but T-Mobile. 

Support from just about any company will say whatever to get you off of the phone.  With it working on other Apple devices and RCS has been working for Android users for 2+ years now on all of the major US carriers.  It's more than likely your device or something on Apple's end.  T-Mobile has absolutely no control over what flows through iMessage or how iMessage works because iMessage uses your data to directly connect to Apple's servers.  Have you tried performing a Network Reset on your device to see if that resolves it for you?  

T-Mobile has control over whether RCS is supported or not. Not apple. All apple did was implement the feature on iOS 18. After that it is the carrier's territory in the matter. That's why in other carriers they do not support RCS will not have it on a device that is ready for RCS. So once again it's not iMessage as this isn't an iMessage feature but a messaging feature dependent on the carrier. This is what the tech rep told me and publication about RCS says the same thing. Lastly all trouble shooting methods were done with no successful fix. 

If that was the case, then iMessage users could have had RCS years ago, but that isn't how it works.  Apple is feeding you a line of B/S.  RCS is integrated into iMessage.  That was the whole point of what the EU forced upon Apple.