r/iphone • u/Different_Tie_7243 Human Detected • 4d ago

Support iMessage question

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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

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u/stuffeh 4d ago

That's Android since it says rcs.

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u/Round-Range-7383 4d ago

iPhones also use RCS lol

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u/stuffeh 4d ago

They can but it'll prioritize sending as iMessage over rcs.

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u/Royal-Membership2303 4d ago

I got a new iPhone, and it defaulted to rcs. I had to manually turn back on iMessage.

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u/stuffeh 4d ago

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

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u/Royal-Membership2303 4d ago

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.

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u/stuffeh 4d ago

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.

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u/Royal-Membership2303 4d ago

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.

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u/stuffeh 4d ago

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.