Google has been trying to convince us for years of the benefits of chatting using RCS in Google Messages, even though the application had a significant limitation for those with a Dual SIM mobile: RCS chats can only be used on one of the SIM cards. The other stayed in the text message forever.
Now Google is starting to get active Dual SIM support for RCS chatsyou can therefore chat with RCS with both phone numbers on your mobile, provided that both are compatible.
RCS chats on both SIMs
Google has been improving Dual SIM support in Android and its applications for some time, since mobile phones with two SIMs (or physical SIM and eSIM) are today the norm and not an extravagance of Chinese terminals, like in the past. Google Messages has already supported Dual SIM for a long timebut only one of the cards could use RCS chats.
RCS chats, formerly known as chat functions and colloquially referred to as “the WhatsApp of operators”, have many advantages over traditional SMS, starting with the fact that they are sent over the Internet and, therefore, they don’t charge you per individual message, plus they’re encrypted and support advanced features like keystroke indication. Since a long time, These advantages can be in both SIMs of your mobilewith Google Messages.
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Indeed, Google has revamped the settings for RCS chats in Google Messages, including a master switch for RCS chats and two boxes to activate, or not, RCS in each SIM
These adjustments have been in progress for a few days now. activated staggered among users, so they may not yet appear despite installing the latest version of Google Messages. Some users who have it active say it works well for them, while others keep the second SIM card forever while trying to sign up for the service.
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