r/GoogleMessages

Has anyone actually been able to send encrypted messages with an iPhone user yet. Google has said it fixed the problem with Apple and I have yet to see it in action.

When I have a link from an app that'll say for instance Best Buy says click the link to go to your app, I click the link and it brings me to Google Play store and the options are uninstall or open so I have to click open and this happens every time with every link that I have an app for. How do I get it to bring me directly to the app instead of the play store? TIA

Hello all,

So is that true Google messages not work like iMessage?

I could send a message from an iPhone in US to a friend who use iPhone in foreign country, but I couldn't do that from Android phone.

Not consistently but about every 3rd time it happens. And it's obvious, cause I'm sending them to my boyfriend and I've got saved searches so I go to a whole other section to pick A and then another search and pick from page B, etc. They look fine all lined up, then I send and like today it's 3 copies of A sent. And he gets 3 copies of A so it's not a visual bug on my end.

What's the issue and how to make it stop, help please?

Coming from Samsung Messages where this was never an issue in over a year, with same phones and carriers.

Edit: even better the one I sent today when I asked what he got when he got home, he showed me the 3 I sent which were what I sent. But then the last message he sent me which was two different ones I got showed on his phone the same first one twice. Then I looked at my phone again to show him I got the 2 he sent, and the 3 I sent were showing 3 GIF B instead of 3 GIF A like it did earlier in the day. WTF is this?

This never once happened in a year+ on Samsung messaging.

I really want favorites to be displayed like the new card style on the Contacts app instead of pins. I need better differentiation...the pin blends in too much.

This is possibly one of the most annoying things ongoing with my samsung phone.. I just switched to samsung messages to see "34 missed messages" in my texts... I've been using google messages with RCS on for a long time. The reason I switched is one of my iphone friends has had enough with the "message not delivered" texts when he tries to text me. We both have the latest software. What on God green earth can I do to solve this problem aside from getting an iphone, if I want to keep using google messages? I really really like and use the web interface that google messages has!

So I just have a question, I have an Xperia 1VII and my girlfriend has an iPhone (don't know model etc) but when she reacts to my messages I always get the "X gave a heart to the message" then once and only once I actually got the heart reaction to my messages and I could click it and see the "reaction" like I can when I am texting my friend that is on a Android.

But this has only happened once and it doesn't "work" anymore, now I only get the "X gave a heart" thing

Can anyone explain why/how this has happened once out of nowhere and then just went back to how it was before?

Also when we send videos,sound files etc to each other the quality is absolutely 💩 but I guess it is because we dont have RCS chats between iPhone and Android in my country yet

I am horrified at the thought that I've been accidentally sending emojis for however long this has been implemented. I intensely dislike emojies, stickers, text animations, etc. and have RCS turned off in part to avoid them. I am aghast that I've accidentally sent emojis to out of the blue merely by looking at or scrolling through older messages.

Please, how do I stop this?

my phone cannot send messages to IOS anymore after last night? I get only one checkmark instead of two. Does anyone know about this? Is it related to 26.5?

I recently switched from Samsung Messages to the Google Messages app.

I made it my default messaging app and while my old texts transferred over to the GM app, I can only see past messages that I've received from my contacts - I can't see any of the messages that I've sent to other people.

I am on a Samsung S9+ with an AT&T carrier. I tried the workaround/fix of deleting the cache & storage of Google Messages & retrying the transfer, however I still only see the messages I've received and not the ones I've sent.

Any fix for this?

The past few days have been really stressful because my mom thinks people in our family are hacking her. I checked her Facebook and Google accounts and the only logged into devices are hers so I don't see how they would be accessing it without it showing that.

This all started because some type of group chat on Google messages showed up in her messages that shows her phone number with like 2-3 other phone numbers belonging to our family members. She says whenever she'd send a message to one of them the other person would get it too or that the messages show up in the group chat (I was having trouble following along). Whatever it is, she thinks that means her phone is being hacked and they're reading her messages.

I tried explaining to her that this doesn't mean they are logged into her accounts but she doesn't believe me. I'll be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if either of them did something like that but none of what she showed me seems like evidence of it. Plus, wouldn't it show up in her logged in devices?

How do I convince her they aren't logged into her account? What would cause that problem? Her phone is an android phone.

So I have been trying to use Google Messages more, in conjunction with other things like WhatsApp. However a big feature that doesn't work properly are the voice messages.

In WhatsApp it's very easy. You tap the icon, you speak and then hit the send button. With Google Messages after you record the voice message you need to add it as an attachment, which is overly complicated, and even then sometimes it fails to attach and send. I have never encountered this problem on WhatsApp or even Instagram which is not primarily a messenger app.

I noticed that if I send a short voice message like say less than 60 seconds it works. But if I try to record and send a voice message over 2 minutes it fails to send the attachment. This is quite sad considering I have had people send me 30 minute voice messages on WhatsApp and it's worked fine. Yet I can't seem to record 3 minute voice messages on Google Messages. I believe this should be given some attention by the developers as a lot of us use voice messages as a primary communication feature. Also has anyone else encountered the same thing?

Hey y'all previously I was able to see which SIM I sent a message from, near the timestamp. Also I was able to quickly toggle SIMs from within the textbox.

Does anyone know how to re-enable this feature? Or is it only available on an older version of Messages?