Drusas ,

I have a friend who is too beautiful (and unfortunately meek) for her own good, attracting stalker types with horrifying regularity. This is a great change.

can ,

However, blocked contacts will still be able to see your messages in a group chat, which is sort of strange, but that’s how it works for now.

Is that strange? Couldn't there be a benefit of not letting them know you blocked them?

GreenEngineering3475 OP ,

On the flip side, they can read your group chat messages. Many(me included) will prefer that it isn't a possibility.

Grunt4019 ,

Why would you block someone and then stay in a group chat with them?

skullgiver ,
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It's strange for SMS/MMS, where recipients are explicitly listed.

I don't think there's a practical use preventing the arrival of such messages, but on a technical level it's a bit peculiar.

I'm not familiar enough with the RCS spec to know if RCS has the same design or if it's simply incapable of hiding messages from members of a group chat. In encrypted chats, you'd expect encrypted messages to become undecryptable for blocked recipients at least, that's one of the major advantages of using encryption, but I guess there must've been a reason why this wasn't implemented.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
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As someone who was being stalked for a while, would have been really fucking nice if Voice had sorted this out a few years ago

Alice ,
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