In June, the GSMA responsible for RCS finalized the latest standard with the ability to delete a sent message, and Google Messages…

  • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    In practice, I’m sure this will just be a label that will go over messages on your preferred SMS app and Google Messages will be the only app that actually deletes them until they realize no one else is doing it

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      3 hours ago

      It looks like that is how they’re currently implementing it, they are sending to the providers as well but this is how they’re doing it with the app itself currently. So you are correct if you’re using anything that isn’t Google messages currently it doesn’t do anything

      I’m expecting this technology to eventually evolve to have a setting where it detects if the person you’re sending to is currently on a technology that supports it and will warn you, like how the RCS system currently Works