• Unable to message short videos between my iPhone and an Android contact

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 7 20:34:32 2024
    But no problems messaging to my phoneless Google Voice tho. My contact
    is also unable to message me his video files to my iPhone as well. He
    has a new Samsung smartphone while I have an iPhone 12 mini (just got
    iOS v18.1.1 a couple nights ago). My video file is only 1.7 MB big.
    What's the problem?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Dec 7 22:46:50 2024
    On 2024-12-07, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    But no problems messaging to my phoneless Google Voice tho. My contact
    is also unable to message me his video files to my iPhone as well. He
    has a new Samsung smartphone while I have an iPhone 12 mini (just got
    iOS v18.1.1 a couple nights ago). My video file is only 1.7 MB big.
    What's the problem?

    Ask his cellular service provider. They control SMS & RCS on his end.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Jolly Roger on Sun Dec 8 06:50:17 2024
    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2024-12-07, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    Unable to message short videos between my iPhone and an Android contact. But no problems messaging to my phoneless Google Voice tho. My contact
    is also unable to message me his video files to my iPhone as well. He
    has a new Samsung smartphone while I have an iPhone 12 mini (just got
    iOS v18.1.1 a couple nights ago). My video file is only 1.7 MB big.
    What's the problem?

    Ask his cellular service provider. They control SMS & RCS on his end.

    We both use VZW. I think I fixed it by disabling RCS. Hence, why I never
    had this problem before iOS v18 upgrade. I turned RCS back on, and now
    it works. I have no idea what's going on! Did anyone else had this
    problem before?
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Dec 8 08:15:44 2024
    On 08.12.24 07:50, Ant wrote:
    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2024-12-07, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    Unable to message short videos between my iPhone and an Android contact. >>> But no problems messaging to my phoneless Google Voice tho. My contact
    is also unable to message me his video files to my iPhone as well. He
    has a new Samsung smartphone while I have an iPhone 12 mini (just got
    iOS v18.1.1 a couple nights ago). My video file is only 1.7 MB big.
    What's the problem?

    Ask his cellular service provider. They control SMS & RCS on his end.

    We both use VZW. I think I fixed it by disabling RCS. Hence, why I never
    had this problem before iOS v18 upgrade. I turned RCS back on, and now
    it works. I have no idea what's going on! Did anyone else had this
    problem before?

    RCS is crap anyway. Use one of the well known messengers. RCS does not
    respect your privacy nor can you be sure the provider of your
    counterparty is supporting this "technology".

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to hugybear@gmx.net on Sun Dec 8 20:21:21 2024
    J÷rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
    On 08.12.24 07:50, Ant wrote:
    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
    On 2024-12-07, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
    Unable to message short videos between my iPhone and an Android contact. >>> But no problems messaging to my phoneless Google Voice tho. My contact >>> is also unable to message me his video files to my iPhone as well. He
    has a new Samsung smartphone while I have an iPhone 12 mini (just got
    iOS v18.1.1 a couple nights ago). My video file is only 1.7 MB big.
    What's the problem?

    Ask his cellular service provider. They control SMS & RCS on his end.

    We both use VZW. I think I fixed it by disabling RCS. Hence, why I never had this problem before iOS v18 upgrade. I turned RCS back on, and now
    it works. I have no idea what's going on! Did anyone else had this
    problem before?

    RCS is crap anyway. Use one of the well known messengers. RCS does not respect your privacy nor can you be sure the provider of your
    counterparty is supporting this "technology".

    Yeah, I'm not impressed with it and not stable. It happened again
    earlier this morning, but disabling and re-enabling RCS didn't fix it
    like last night. Originally, text chat form said SMS. Minutes later, it
    said RCS. So wacky. RCS isn't reliable. I think I will just disable it
    fully to go back to the old ways before iOS v18. Maybe it's buggy from
    being new in iOS v18 even though it's at v18.1.1 now and hopefully v18.2 tomorrow (I wonder if it will improve RCS). :(
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to Leonard Blaisdell on Sun Dec 8 22:40:37 2024
    On 08.12.24 22:29, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
    On 2024-12-08, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

    We both use VZW. I think I fixed it by disabling RCS. Hence, why I never
    had this problem before iOS v18 upgrade. I turned RCS back on, and now
    it works. I have no idea what's going on! Did anyone else had this
    problem before?


    Look to the huge Chinese hack on telecom last week. They're still
    sorting it out. It has nothing to do with an iOS update. At least,
    that's what I'm hearing and seeing on TV. Stay tuned.
    My wife has a friend on iOS. Her kids use Android. She can message us,
    but she can't message her kids. They can message each other, but they
    can't message her.
    Of course, I've been wrong before.

    Use a (real) messenger.

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  • From Leonard Blaisdell@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Dec 8 21:29:28 2024
    On 2024-12-08, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

    We both use VZW. I think I fixed it by disabling RCS. Hence, why I never
    had this problem before iOS v18 upgrade. I turned RCS back on, and now
    it works. I have no idea what's going on! Did anyone else had this
    problem before?


    Look to the huge Chinese hack on telecom last week. They're still
    sorting it out. It has nothing to do with an iOS update. At least,
    that's what I'm hearing and seeing on TV. Stay tuned.
    My wife has a friend on iOS. Her kids use Android. She can message us,
    but she can't message her kids. They can message each other, but they
    can't message her.
    Of course, I've been wrong before.

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