RCS is the next big step in messaging, but carriers have delayed the transition over and over again, to the point where Google took its own step to roll out RCS to every Android phone in the world through its own app. Now the rollout of Google RCS is expanding to a second app, Samsung Messages.
Samsung Messages is the default texting app on Galaxy smartphones and has long supported RCS and the Universal Profile, but only if the carrier supports the new standard.
Now some users are seeing Google’s RCS rollout in their Samsung Messages app, like the folks over there XDA spotted. Samsung first announced this in April, but it has taken most of 2020 for the functionality to be rolled out to users.
As in the Google Messages app, RCS Chat in Samsung Messages first appears with the popup below (via Reddit) that requires users to agree to the terms of using the feature. From there, Chat is supported between that user and any other phone number also registered to the universal profile, whether that’s using Google’s RCS rollout or one of their carrier.
So far it doesn’t seem like this functionality is being rolled out very widely, but it’s still great to see things take off. After all, Samsung is the largest Android brand in the world, and honestly, most users never change their default messaging app. We will update this article as the rollout expands.
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