It’s buggy and often fails to fallback even with the option turned on. And the default behavior should be “prompt to resend as SMS and offer to enable the option” not “sit on your hands and look moronic when you can’t send RCS”. This is embarrassingly bad software.
Yes, the phone need to be on. If the phone you are sending an sms to is not on, the application fallback to standard SMS.
it doesn’t by default
Which is good from a security perspective, but also pretty annoying from a QOL perspective.
therefore it can be enabled in settings
It’s buggy and often fails to fallback even with the option turned on. And the default behavior should be “prompt to resend as SMS and offer to enable the option” not “sit on your hands and look moronic when you can’t send RCS”. This is embarrassingly bad software.
fair