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Just this morning, I was sitting in my car waiting for Alternate Side of the Street parking to end (a dance that many car-owning New Yorkers go through<\/a>) and texted my partner to come take his turn. As normal, I used the Messages app on my Pixel 6 phone to contact him and waited for the usual reply (\u201cOn my way!\u201d or \u201cBe there in a few!\u201d), but after about four minutes or so, I realized that I hadn\u2019t had a response. When I checked the app, I saw that the text hadn\u2019t been sent \u2014 instead, there was a tiny message saying my partner\u2019s phone was off and asking if I wanted to send an SMS \/ MMS instead.<\/p>\n
What?<\/p>\n
I chose to send the SMS and got an immediate reply (proving that the phone was not<\/em> off). What was the problem? I\u2019m not absolutely sure, but Google Messages uses RCS, an online protocol<\/a> that Google has been trying to make a standard \u2014 and for some reason, the app had apparently decided that my partner\u2019s Pixel was not available.<\/p>\n
Google has been making a lot of noise about Messages lately and has even made it more friendly when messaging with iPhones<\/a>. But obviously, there are still kinks.<\/p>\n
If you use Google Messages for your chats (rather than Chat, or Hangouts, or whatever<\/a>) and, for some reason, your Messages app decides that you can\u2019t send an RCS text, here\u2019s a feature that you may want to enable \u2014 just in case. It will ensure that you don\u2019t have to check whether or not your text has gone out; instead, it will automatically send your message via the less-secure but still-available SMS \/ MMS protocol. Once RCS is available again, it will switch back. (These directions are for a Pixel 6 with Android 12 \u2014 as usual with Android, YMMV.) <\/p>\n
\nOpen the Messages<\/strong> app, tap the three dots in the top right corner of the main screen, and select Settings<\/strong>\n<\/li>\n
Select Chat features<\/strong>\n<\/li>\n
Find Automatically resend as text (SMS\/MMS)<\/strong> and toggle it on<\/li>\nWhen you toggle on the feature, you\u2019ll get a warning that messages sent as SMS\/MMS aren\u2019t end-to-end encrypted but that messages will switch back when the chat features reconnect. If that\u2019s okay with you, select Allow<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnd that\u2019s it! I like the security and media features that come with the Message app\u2019s RCS protocol, but when I send a text, I definitely want it to go through asap. (Otherwise, I\u2019d send an email \u2014 or maybe a nice snail mail note.) If you agree, you may want to make sure that this feature is toggled on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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