Google likes to tout [RCS](https://www.androidpolice.com/how-to-rcs-chat-in-google-messages/) as the end of its past messaging misfortunes; in a way, it's a solution to many problems. It's a replacement for SMS that brings many modern features, such as typing indicators and high-quality photo and video sending. But RCS breaks more often than it should. Amid a campaign by Google to [shame Apple into using RCS](https://www.androidpolice.com/google-rcs-get-the-message-apple/) (rhetoric that has been unsuccessful thus far and [likely has little chance of working](https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-imessage-rcs-no-incentive/)), the system has broken for a handful of Google Fi users after updating their Pixels to [Android 13](https://www.androidpolice.com/android-13/).