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It's also time for Google to fix texting. Google Voice still doesn't support RCS despite people asking for it for many years. It would be great if someone just copied this web page and filled in Google and Google Voice everywhere it talks about Apple and iMessage, but I get the feeling that Google doesn't even care how embarrassing it is.

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It's more embarrassing than that: For most of the time I used Google Voice, it couldn't even forward MMS. I used Google Voice as my primary number for years, and I had to tell people that I couldn't receive group texts or pictures, which always got me weird puzzled looks.

And of course, now they've removed SMS forwarding entirely, and basically completely made the service useless/redundant. I'm glad I ported my main number out years ago.

When I stopped using Google Voice a couple of years ago I still couldn't receive group photos, would only receive 50% of group texts, and (Swedish) accented letters were each replaced by a seemingly random selection of 1-4 ascii characters. Such a mess, I wish I'd never signed up.

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