Twilio incident
RCS inbound message delivery failures for iOS devices
Twilio experienced a minor incident on May 6, 2026 affecting RCS Messaging, lasting 2h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 06, 2026, 08:05 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue where Customers are not receiving RCS messages from their iOS users for conversations that are more than few hours old. We will provide another update in 1 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
- investigating May 06, 2026, 08:08 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate an issue where Customers are not receiving RCS messages from their iOS users for conversations that are more than few minutes old. We will provide another update in 1 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
- investigating May 06, 2026, 08:09 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate an issue where Customers are not receiving RCS messages from their iOS users for conversations that are more than few minutes old. We will provide another update in 1 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
- identified May 06, 2026, 08:38 PM UTC
We have identified an issue involving inbound RCS message delivery failures affecting iOS devices in conversation threads older than a few minutes. Customers may experience messages failing to arrive until an outbound message is sent first. We have escalated this issue to our vendor. We will provide another update in 2 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
- monitoring May 06, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC
Our third party vendors have implemented a fix and we are seeing recovery in RCS messages. We will provide another update in 30 minutes or as soon as more information becomes available.
- resolved May 06, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC
Our engineers have monitored the fix and confirmed the issue with inbound RCS message delivery failures affecting iOS devices in conversation threads older than a few minutes has been resolved. All services are now operating normally at this time.
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