Open Bug 1939366 Opened 2 months ago Updated 2 months ago

VPN blocks RCS instant messaging on iOS 18.2

Categories

(Mozilla VPN :: General, defect)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: doug.b.robinson, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.2 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Mozilla VPN turned on on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.2. A friend of mine running Android messaged myself and my wife (who is also using iOS).

Actual results:

My wife received the RCS based message in our 3-way group. I did not receive the message. I power-cycled the iPhone with no joy.

Expected results:

The RCS based message should have properly been delivered even with the VPN up and running.

When I turned off the VPN the RCS based messages showed up within a few minutes. This was deeply surprising.

Thank you for filing. I've copied this over to the Mozilla VPN GitHub repo here.

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