Make RCS available on iOS on SMARTY
RCS has been a feature on iOS, but has so far not been enabled on the SMARTY network. Please enable this feature to allow users with iPhones to use RCS messaging
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Encrypted rcs chat beta has just landed on iOS. Please add this modern feature to your service. With thanks.
I posted this over a year ago, months after iOS supported RCS and Smarty has been silent on this issue.
They actually lost a customer because I moved my mother away from Smarty as a direct result of this (and the lack of short codes at the time). I'm unaffected as an Android user.
The truth is, Smarty does need to set up some infrastructure to support RCS and there is no legal requirement for Smarty to do so yet. This is Apple's fault, kinda, for not handling it themselves (Apple only begrudgingly supported RCS after pressure from Google and regulators). Smarty probably also makes a fair bit of money from accidental MMS charges and that would disappear overnight if they adopted RCS.
Unfortunately, if you want standard modern carrier features Smarty is not the carrier to join. You waited years and years for something as basic as Short Codes. I suspect RCS is still many years away on Smarty.
It is really frustrating as Three network provide it and Smarty can do it easily. It is laziness.
KizzyCatwoman How do you know they can do it easily? Are you in mobile telecoms engineering? Laziness.....really??
Why is it of such great importance? It would be helpful to have a clear explanation.
Come on man, you're in every thread dismissing people's comments for years now. You've had replies in the past about why RCS isn't "just another WhatsApp", please don't pretend like you don't know, and please grow and stop dismissing every single criticism of Smarty. They ain't paying you (I presume...)
Any updates on this from anyone from Smarty? I’ve just joined and didn’t realise they didn’t support it, my old network did so this is one switch regret I have.
ShaunEl_4011905 Smarty themselves will not post on here usually.
Judging by how few votes appear here, it seems that the majority of customers are not bothered, so unfortunately they may not see this s a priority for the network.
Thanks, yeah I figured they might not. I tried asking them on the chat feature but the person just told me how to set up iMessage and I already have that of course.
