Reasoning

They stated its for reducing spam and that jazz.

However, it has the hidden benefit of yet another reason to avoid rooting, which means less access to functional adblocking

Honestly how fucking dare they mess with communication like that, especially with no notice. I've been missing messages from my roommate and dad with no sign of anything being misconfigured. It's one thing for things to be inadvertently broken from rooting, but doing it on purpose under the table is disgusting behavior

Play Integrity Fix currently fixes this

Yet one more reason to not use the hot garbage that is RCS

I'm on LineageOS, rooted, and RCS is working for me. Is the block tied to the device safety attestation?

My device (somehow?) passes safety check, and I've had no problems with my banking app, Pay, or other annoying apps that insist you don't own your own device.

They say that it's for reducing spam but then i read that in india they allow businesses to pay for sending unsolicited spam to the point that enabling RCS it's like stating "i like spam, please send more"

Google Messages is a mess. It NEVER falls back to SMS if you lose data connection, making it very unreliable.

As a result I've had several messages fail, with no notice unless I open the app and see the "failed" message.

As a result I disabled RCS and the app and installed QKSMS and only use SMS. It's 100% reliable. For chats I use WhatsApp.

Add to that they are now blocking rooted users WITHOUT TELLING THEM, and it's really a pile of steaming sh!t.

Suchai needs to go. Google as a whole is getting worse under his leadership.

Even Android has stagnated under him. It should be way better than it is but he doesn't inspire creativity and excitement in the staff. They are all playing it safe, with zero innovation.

An "industry standard" that Google seems to have complete control over. Sound like another failed Google messaging app.

Aaaah... Finally a reason for me to root my phone!

Google should be forced to open up RCS to third-parties with this move.

Not one single mention in the article of what an "RCS message" is.

Boy do I hate articles that just assume you know all the context you need.

For now I can confirm KSU root does not trigger this RCS block

it's broken for me and i haven't even rooted this phone :p

Found info on Samsung website that "Samsung Messages" app should support RCS? Is it true? Can this app be installed on non-Samsung phone?