What Does the Blue Dot Mean on Samsung Contacts?
Are you a Samsung device user? If YES, then you can relate to this article. You will find essential information about the tiny blue dot on Samsung contact and the RCS service here.
What is the Blue Dot On Samsung Contacts?
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If you use a Samsung android smartphone, you may find a blue dot on the text messaging app. It’s nothing to worry about. The text messaging app’s blue dot on your contacts’ profile indicates that you can communicate with a person whose device carrier has already adopted the RCS service system.
You can also enable it. If you enable RCS manually or have already enabled it, you can send and receive much more than simple texts.
What is RCS Messaging?
In general, if you see a tiny blue-colored dot on the icon of your contact, then it simply indicates that the particular contact has RCS ready device. RCS is an advanced text messaging service and a next-gen SMS protocol system. RCS means Rich Communication Service.
The former communication service only allows us to send and receive text messages and low-quality MMS photos. RCS is a highly advanced communication protocol on android devices.
The blue dot on your Samsung contact is only visible if you turn on RCS manually or if it’s already enabled. You can disable RCS anytime and only access your text messaging app to send or receive SMS.
If your android device is compatible with RCS, it will automatically determine which of your contacts has the same RCS service and denote those contacts with a blue dot.
So, if your Samsung smartphone or any other device is RCS compatible, you can do much more than send or receive SMS. Like WhatsApp and Telegram apps, you can also make groups and interact with your friends, family members, relatives, and colleagues. The blue dot also indicates that profile sharing is active and the other person is online.
In addition to that, you can also send and receive photos, videos, high-quality audio, and files. However, ensure your device is connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi to access this service.
Here blue dot also lets you know that someone is actively using their text messaging app. You can still chat with someone who doesn’t have RCS messaging protocol. Still, you will be limited to common messaging features such as only 160 characters allowed, no read receipt, and you won’t be allowed to check online activity status.
How To Activate/Enable Blue Dot on Samsung Contacts?
We have mentioned steps to activate the blue dot on the contacts icon. Follow these easy steps to activate the Blue dot.
- First, ensure your device is connected to internet mobile data or Wi-Fi. Otherwise, it will not work.
- On the Home screen, you will find an inbuilt Android messaging app. Tap on that icon.
- Now you will find three tiny dots in the upper-right corner of the interface. Click on those dots to further process.
- You will see a pop-up menu under which you will find ‘Settings.’
- Under the Message settings, you will find ‘Chat Settings’ and Tap on that.
- Toggle “Enable the Chat Feature” on.
When you activate this text/chat feature on your device, you can easily send and receive messages, photos, videos, audio, and files. You will also know about the online status of another person and when he/she is typing. Moreover, you can also make groups and add other people to that group.
How To Remove Blue Dot on Samsung Contact and Disable RCS on Your Device?
Like the above process, you can manually disable the Blue dot by following these simple steps. But it would help if you remembered that once you disable this chat feature, you will not be able to send and receive multimedia files, photos, and videos.
Here are the steps to remove the blue dot on the Samsung contact
- Go to Samsung’s message app.
- Tap on the three dots menu in the upper right side and tap on ‘Settings.’
- Tap on Message settings and go to Chat settings.
- Turn off ‘Chat features’ To remove the blue dot on the contact.
What are The Blue and Green Messages on Android Phones?
As we discussed earlier, the blue dot indicates that it’s a part of the RCS system and allows Android users to know about the online activity status of their contacts who have similar RCS.
However, if your Samsung device is not connected to the internet, through mobile data, or Wifi, you can not use this chat feature.
Moreover, the blue bubble on the text messaging app indicates that your message has been sent as a chat. Here, the blue dot indicates that the person in your contact is active and denotes that all text or chat messages are sent from one RCS messaging protocol to another.
If you’ve ever used an iPhone, then you will realize that if you send a message to a non-RCS-capable phone, then messages appear in green color. The same system work on Samsung device.
The green color indicates that the message has been sent from RCS capable smartphone to non-RCS capable smartphone and the blue color indicates that the message has been sent from RCS to an RCS-capable smartphone.
Conclusion:
It’s easy to avoid such a tiny blue dot if you don’t know what it means and why it’s present in contacts. RCS (Rich Communication Service) is available on most Android smartphones. This RCS works as iMessage on Android devices.
If you ever find a blue dot, don’t worry; it’s just an indicator that you can share multimedia files, photos, videos, and audio with your contacts. You can easily remove this dot by simply following the above steps.
RCS is a new-generation messaging protocol, and it’s far different than outdated SMS services. However, not all devices have such a system; only Samsung, LG, and Google hardware devices have RCS messaging protocol because of their partnership with these companies.