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Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
Google says it’s taking measures to prevent spam and abuse.
By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Users with rooted phones — a process that unlocks privileged access to the Android operating system, like jailbreaking iPhones — have made several reports on the Google Messages support page, Reddit, and XDA ’s web forum over the last few months, finding they’re suddenly unable to send or receive RCS messages. One example from Reddit user u/joefuf shows that RCS messages would simply vanish after hitting the send button.
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