iOS 18, what did you think?

[John2021]

i dunno will i be able to hook the phone to my pc and download all of my pictures and videos without having to deal with crazy file formats that won't download!!!

 

[comfortably_numb]

RCS from iPhone to Android stopped working for me about a week ago. I think it's on the carrier side, not Apple.

 

[klang]

RCS from iPhone to Android stopped working for me about a week ago. I think it's on the carrier side, not Apple.

I'm wondering if some of the Android users I text with have RCS turned on. It is optional and I'm not sure what the default setting would be. For group texts everyone participating must have RCS turned on.

 

[comfortably_numb]

I'm wondering if some of the Android users I text with have RCS turned on

That's possible, but I think in this case my contacts that lost RCS do have it enabled. I switched from Visible (Verizon) to Total Wireless (also Verizon) because they are offering a $25/month unlimited premium data plan. Apparently, Total hasn't enabled RCS yet while Visible has.

 

[harshness]

i dunno will i be able to hook the phone to my pc and download all of my pictures and videos without having to deal with crazy file formats that won't download!!!

No, but if you upload them to your iCloud, Apple will do the necessary conversions for you. The problem isn't with iOS but with the system that Windows uses to recognize what a file contains (by the file name extension). HEIF and HEVC are well-established in the graphics and video communities. ProRes maybe not so much.

At least is isn't as clumsy as the old Macintosh "fork" system where the file contents were modified to tell the Mac what application was used to "open" the file. Adobe does much the same thing with Photoshop even today!

Consider how long Windows users had to wait for Microsoft to add handing of .RAR and .7z files to Windows Explorer.