Google Fi’s big RCS upgrade lands at last, with a small catch

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TL;DR

• Google Fi finally makes web calling and RCS coexist.
• The fix comes with a trade-off: calling and messaging now live in two separate web portals.
• A new Web Calls page handles voice and voicemail, while RCS messaging shifts to Google Messages for Web.

If you’ve ever tried to manage calls or texts from your laptop with Google Fi and ended up frustrated, you’re not alone. For quite a while, web-based calls and messaging didn’t work well with RCS, but that’s starting to improve.

Google has now rolled out a fix that lets you keep web calling features alongside modern RCS messaging, 9to5Google reports. However, the new solution still isn’t as streamlined as many hoped.




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