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PSA: With RCS now on iOS, be careful when renaming group chats
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Is it not supremely embarrassing to read something like this from a publication called "Android Authority" using a random Reddit user as a source, and ALSO being incorrect? Shouldn't anyone who actually uses Android know this, much less a tech publication?
I believe they meant MMS groups on Google Messages not RCS groups. So previously the MMS group name was only for you, now the RCS will change both. Unless I'm misreading the article.
It didn't really specify that, so I read it as the author implying that Android users need to be careful now because even though other Android users can't see your group names, iOS users now can.
They say
Which sounds like the author is thinking about this backwards. The iOS update didn't extend the group renaming feature to Android users, iOS actually added Android's group renaming feature. For a while now, as long as everyone in your group was using an Android device with RCS, they could all see and change the group name. I think the author must not have realized that this was a thing until now because it was less likely for every group member to be on Android than it was for them to all be on iOS.
Like I said I don't think he meant RCS when talking about not being able to change the name. Now that its all RCS of course it will show on all devices now. He is just pointing out that, before, when changing the name IOS didn't see it, and now they do.