Advanced Messaging RCS for Android

Is now better than ever

With access to enhanced features and a seamless messaging experience.

Enhance text conversations with Advanced Messaging RCS from AT&T

Share your life with high-quality pictures, longer videos, and larger group chats with up to 100 participants. See when your messages are delivered, read, and when others are responding.¹

Larger file transfers than MMS

Send high-quality pictures and longer videos to enhance your messages.

Delivery and read receipts

See when your messages have been delivered and read.

Typing notification

Know when the person you're messaging with is typing a response.

Larger group chats

Invite more people to join in on the conversation.

RCS for Android is here

Rich Communication Services (RCS) Advanced Messaging network standards let you chat and share larger files than MMS with more people* than ever before, up to 100 group chat participants. Send higher quality image, video, and other files.

We’re excited to continue featuring the Google Messages application on new Android smartphones. This offers Advanced Messaging RCS to a growing list of popular smartphones from Samsung and more; and is continuing to deliver RCS features that function between many major U.S and international wireless carriers.

For a better Android RCS messaging experience offering more features and RCS interoperability with more devices, we recommend that you use Google Messages on your Android smartphone.

Have an iPhone? Learn about RCS messaging for iPhone.

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