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On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?
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On 11.06.26 02:37, croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?

Your phone always chooses the highest standard possible in terms of functionality and that is RCS. If the network or the device of the
receiver is not compatible with RCS your Samsung is automatically
downgrading to SMS. The only way to standardise is to downgrade
permanently to SMS. But this would have a lot of disadvantages.
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croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?

You can only send by RCS to someone else if they have it enabled (which
is the default). If their phone is turned off, it'll go via SMS and be received later.

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On 2026-06-11 11:24, Andy Burns wrote:

croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS.  Can I control this?

You can only send by RCS to someone else if they have it enabled (which
is the default).  If their phone is turned off, it'll go via SMS and be received later.

Huh?

I just turned off my second phone to try. I sent two RCSs to it, no problem.
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On 2026-06-11 02:37, croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?

Just ask those people to enable RCS on their phones. It is the default
on modern phones; they might have an old phones, or have it disabled for
some reason.
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"Carlos E.R." wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

If their phone is turned off, it'll go via

SMS and be received later.

Huh?

I just turned off my second phone to try. I sent two RCSs to it, no problem.If you turned it off for a few seconds, you'll still count as registered

with the rcs servers, but after $SOMETIME, you won't.
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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> writes:

On 2026-06-11 11:24, Andy Burns wrote:

croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS.  Can I control this?

You can only send by RCS to someone else if they have it enabled
(which is the default).  If their phone is turned off, it'll go via
SMS and be received later.

Huh?

I just turned off my second phone to try. I sent two RCSs to it, no problem.

If the phone is not connected to the internet it will keep trying for a
couple of hours I think, then default to SMS. (Unless they have changed
things. I used to find it quite annoying because I would realise it
wasn't sending, but have to wait for it to fail).
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:49:58 +0200, Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

On 11.06.26 02:37, croy wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?

Your phone always chooses the highest standard possible in terms of >functionality and that is RCS. If the network or the device of the
receiver is not compatible with RCS your Samsung is automatically
downgrading to SMS. The only way to standardise is to downgrade
permanently to SMS. But this would have a lot of disadvantages.

Thanks!
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:37:33 -0700, croy <croy@spam.invalid.net> wrote:

On my Samsung s24 FE, when I message with someone, I sometimes see it's
going as SMS, and sometimes as RCS. Can I control this?

Thanks to all of you. Good info.
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