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I have a Pixel 3. I try to avoid using SMS and instead use Signal whenever possible. When I do use SMS (the Messages app), I don't want "RCS chats" to be enabled. But nearly every time I open the Messages app, I'm prompted with a popup where the "Agree" button is very prominent.

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I do not want to agree to use RCS chats. I want my choice (when I click "Use Messages without RCS chats") to be permanent.

How can I fix this?

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There is a two year old Google community question about this, which Google as usual chose not to respond to, and just locked up the question.

On my Pixel 6a, I had enabled RCS previously. After seeing this question, I disabled RCS and opened messages app many times over two days. I did not get the enable RCS popup again

Enabling RCS by tapping agree and then from settings disabling RCS is a hack that worked for me. I am not sure if this behavior is OS version dependent or the logic behind this ( I guess it's some kind of promo popup to encourage RCS usage).

This may or not work for OP but making it into an answer that may help somebody.

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    Thank you. I will accept this answer preemptively and will try it out next time that popup happens. I know I could go switch the setting right now, but I'm curious to come back and check the date of this comment when it happens and see how long the interval was.
    – Ryan
    Commented Sep 5, 2023 at 13:04
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    You are welcome. Also if it doesn't work please feel free to comment and unaccept as well!
    – beeshyams
    Commented Sep 5, 2023 at 13:08

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