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TL;DR
- It seems that Android telephone homeowners can rename a bunch textual content for iOS homeowners within the group.
- Apple has lengthy allowed any iPhone customers in a bunch textual content to rename the group, although.
- Against this, Google Messages beforehand allowed you to rename a bunch in your eyes solely.
Apple just lately launched iOS 18 and one of many greater additions is RCS help, providing a extra trendy messaging expertise between Android telephones and iPhones. Nevertheless, it turns on the market’s one group chat quirk you’ve gotten to concentrate on.
Redditor Dane_Gleessak famous that if somebody with an Android telephone adjustments the title of a bunch textual content, the title can be modified for iOS customers within the group textual content as nicely. That’s a serious change in comparison with Google Messages on Android, which lets you rename group texts in your eyes solely.
It’s price noting that Apple has lengthy allowed anybody to alter the title of a bunch textual content in iMessage so long as everybody within the group was utilizing an iOS machine. So RCS in iOS 18 successfully extends this functionality to Android machine homeowners.
Against this, messaging apps like WhatsApp supply a number of choices for title adjustments. You may permit anybody to alter the group chat title or specify that solely sure members have the privilege.
However, Android telephone homeowners ought to preserve this transformation in thoughts when renaming group texts with iPhone-toting members. The very last thing you need to do is give your church group chat a naughty title.
