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TL;DR
- Samsung Messages has reportedly regained RCS help on Galaxy S25 sequence gadgets.
- Regardless of Samsung’s plans to sundown Samsung Messages, Galaxy S25 Extremely customers on T-Cell and Verizon can as soon as once more ship RCS messages by way of the app.
- The app reportedly makes use of Google’s implementation of RCS messaging.
Samsung is giving blended alerts about its plans for the Samsung Messages app. Though the corporate has beforehand confirmed that Google Messages would turn into the default messaging app on Galaxy gadgets and its newest flagships don’t include Samsung Messages pre-installed, new stories point out that it has enabled a beforehand eliminated characteristic in Samsung Messages on Galaxy S25 sequence gadgets.
As a part of its transfer to change from Samsung Messages to Google Messages because the default messaging app on Galaxy telephones, Samsung dropped RCS help from its messaging app with some US community carriers. Nevertheless, latest stories from SammyGuru and 9to5Google declare that Samsung has introduced again RCS help in Samsung Messages on the brand new Galaxy S25 sequence telephones.
Samsung Messages on the Galaxy S25 sequence reportedly makes use of Google’s implementation of RCS and appears to work flawlessly on T-Cell and Verizon’s networks. Whereas that is nice information for customers preferring Samsung’s messaging app, it’s somewhat complicated provided that Samsung reiterated its plans to sundown Samsung Messages and migrate customers to Google Messages in a press release final month.
It’s unclear whether or not Samsung has had a change of coronary heart and desires to maintain its messaging app round in the meanwhile. We’ll replace this put up as quickly as we obtain an replace from the corporate. Till then, if you wish to use Samsung Messages in your Galaxy S25 sequence system, it’s nonetheless obtainable for obtain on the Galaxy Retailer.