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November 16, 2019
Question

Any size limit for sms text size?

I wish to know while using sms api of rc do we restrict our text messages to a certain character limit?

Didn't find anything like that. What is the size it restricts?

    2 replies

    The First Step
    November 16, 2019

    "RingCentral's service sends individual messages up to 160 characters and can concatenate longer messages up to 1000 characters. "

    As per the link here: https://ringcentral-faq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sms/

    1000 characters in both inbound and outbound SMS

    ref: https://forums.developers.ringcentral.com/questions/774/sms-faq.html

    The First Step
    November 18, 2019

    Hi Dilip,

    Text of a message. Max length is 1000 symbols (2-byte UTF-16 encoded). If a character is encoded in 4 bytes in UTF-16 it is treated as 2 characters, thus restricting the maximum message length to 500 symbols. Yes u can send special characters as well!