As basic as texting is on Android, it can still break. Here's what might be going on, and how you get back to jamming out conversations.

Reports online suggest that RCS support vanished from Google Messages in multiple countries, with no fix in sight.

However, RCS on Android continues to be frustratingly unreliable. Users frequently find the app failing to connect to Google's servers, forcing them to fall back on SMS.

It might be a good time to stop using the standard Android SMS messaging system and upgrade to a different ecosystem entirely -- here's why.