Samsung is shutting down messages and pushing the use of Google’s messenger. Are there alternatives? I don’t want to give Google that much personal info to train its AI or to give the regime an avenue to getting my info.
Samsung is shutting down messages and pushing the use of Google’s messenger. Are there alternatives? I don’t want to give Google that much personal info to train its AI or to give the regime an avenue to getting my info.
Signal
has signal gone back to sms or am I still expected to somehow evangelize all my contacts into also using it
I wasn’t even aware that they removed sms support. It’s been ages since I used sms.
It was a pretty big bummer. Most people in my circle were using it up until that point. But, you know, the rest of the employed world operates on sms so waddya do
Depends on the country, here almost everyone is in whatsapp. I haven’t been able to ditch that because of work and hobby groups.
oof. my condolences
I never figured how to sms through signal, works great as a whatsapp alternative though
It was just a setting in android, you can change your default SMS app to signal but signal stopped supporting SMS so you can’t do that anymore
https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
Sad days. I’ll be giving Fossify messages a try then, thanks
Does that carry over all the conversations? Does it go to the phone numbers directly? Or, do they need Signal too (like with TeamSpeak or Discord)?
I would recommend you update the post title to clarify you are looking for an app that handles SMS and not just any regular messaging app. Signal requires the other user to also use signal.
It is already clear, since both apps mentioned are specifically for handling sms
Yet at the time of my comment, not a single one of the suggestions handled sms
Fixed