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Need a replacement messaging app for Samsung (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by Hera@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Trying to ditch Google messages without success. I hung onto the old Samsung app forever but it is super buggy for me. I tried to switch to textra, bought the paid version, but keep getting this "MMS timeout" message so idk if im not getting or sending messages correctly. Have tried all the fixes i found online to no avail. So, is there any real, decent alternative to Google messages?

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Except it's closed down and cannot be used by non-Google apps. Not an issue with the protocol itself, but that's the reality on Android. Let alone iOS.

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It can absolutely be used on iOS. In fact, it's already partially implemented and iOS is about to roll out end to end encryption in RCS as well.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Granted I don't use iOS so I might have missed it, but can you give an example of a third party texting app that can use RCS on iOS?

I thought the situation is the same as on Android - third party apps can only use SMS, not RCS.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

Third party apps can't even SMS on iOS. On Apple's platform, you use their apps or you don't get the feature. The iOS implementation of RCS doesn't even yet support encryption. Apple is testing encryption between Apple devices.

That Apple and Google both hold the keys to what started out as an open GSMA standard, and now have a closed-source platform screams never trust it.