onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoGoogle adds(?) automated phone number verification by "periodically" obtaining your number from your carrier.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageGoogle adds(?) automated phone number verification by "periodically" obtaining your number from your carrier.sh.itjust.worksonionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIrdial@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoFor both iMessage and RCS, your phone number essentially acts like a username. Both services communicate with the carrier to “claim” it, otherwise everything would arrive as an SMS.
minus-squarepewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agois RCS worth it tho?
minus-squareScrollone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 days agoRCS is completely useless in Europe because nobody uses texts anymore. I’ve disabled it because I don’t want Google to manage my 2FA texts
For both iMessage and RCS, your phone number essentially acts like a username. Both services communicate with the carrier to “claim” it, otherwise everything would arrive as an SMS.
is RCS worth it tho?
Yea, it is
RCS is completely useless in Europe because nobody uses texts anymore.
I’ve disabled it because I don’t want Google to manage my 2FA texts
But Google isn’t my carrier