RCS not enabled on iPhone

[Cornetto]

I got a message from Three announcing that RCS was being launched for iPhones from 9/12/2024.

It's the 10th now, and it's still not enabled on my phone: the RCS option is not present under Settings | Apps | Messages, and the IMS Status only shows Voice & SMS.

Has anyone else got this issue?

I phoned support this morning but the bloke I spoke to didn't know anything about it and even seemed to doubt that the message I'd received from Three was genuine.

[tomb]

Thanks for testing, the person who I was sending to did have RCS on as they've used it for years. Would not send yesterday. @JonathanB got involved above and cleared up the chargeable statement.

[jr0]

@CornettoI believe 18.2 is now out, any joy with RCS?

[jr0]

@Cornetto- check this thread https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Network/Apple-IOS-18-0-RCS-Support/m-p/36068
and this
https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Network/RCS-on-iPhone-gone-live/td-p/41562

maybe your iOS release version?

[Cornetto]

Unfortunately, nothing in those links helps and I'm running iOS 18.1.1 so that should not be the issue.

[Clever-Trevor · Accepted solution]

It will appear with iOS update 18.2.

this was due to release on 9th but its delayed ( likely today or this week )

as iOS released another beta ( as found an issue)

So.should see it with next update.  

[dano]

I’m tagging onto this thread rather than starting a new one. RCS is still “Waiting for activation” on iPhone running iOS 18.4. I contacted support to ask what I need to do to enable it but they didn’t know what RCS is. I’ve just tried resetting my network settings but it’s not changed anything. What else can I try?

[dano]

Fixed - I converted the SIM to an eSIM. 

[JonathanB]

Hi @dano,

Thanks for sharing your solution, hopefully this helps others in the future. RCS should work with physical SIMs though, so that's a bit odd, do you know roughly how long you had the old SIM for?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Cornetto]

Thanks for the info. Yep RCS is now enabled with the 18.2 update.  It took few minutes after the update was applied, but it is working.