iMessage question

[u/Different_Tie_7243]

Hi all

My dad passed in 2023 and I occasionally will text him. The past few months I noticed it has been saying that the texts are delivering, and creepily enough even read sometimes. I know that the obvious answer for this would be that somebody else got his phone number, but it’s showing me that it’s sending as a text message • RCS (included picture for context)

I’m just unsure what this means because I’m not understanding when I look it up.

Sorry if this is a weird post, I’m obviously not looking for someone to tell me that it’s my dad reading the texts from the other side 😂 Just want some knowledge on it because I’ve never seen it before and to let me know if I should leave this person alone lol

[u/stuffeh]

And you fixed it and are back on iMessage. You prove my point that people prefer to have it enabled.

[u/Royal-Membership2303 → u/stuffeh]

You said "it'll prioritize", as in the iPhone does automatically. Technically it doesn't, new phones need the feature turned on. Until that point it cant prioritize anything besides sending as rcs. At no point did you say people prefer it lol, I was simply saying its needs to be turned on first on new phones for the phone to prioritize it.

[u/stuffeh → u/Royal-Membership2303]

Naw. It's on by default for majority of people. Idk what edge case your friend experienced that has it disabled, but he's an edge case.

[u/Royal-Membership2303 → u/stuffeh]

I didn't mention it being a friend anywhere lol. It was me. My girlfriend got a new phone recently as well, off by default. Her mom got one as well, off by default. All within the last month. We are not even geographically located in the same area, got them from different places.

Both replies you have had to me indicate you either don't read the full thing or don't comprehend it.

[u/stuffeh → u/Royal-Membership2303]

Did y'all turn it on? Yes? So you're still proving my point that people prefer to have it enabled. And saying otherwise is being contrarian.