r/GoogleMessages

As the title states, after I had to factory reset my phone, I noticed my rcs messages were gone.

I've had my Samsung s25 for about 10 months now. When I set it up, I made sure backup was on both for my samsung cloud and google account. A few days ago, google messages was acting up, and after multiple attempts, calls with samsung care and with my phone carrier, my last option was to factory reset my phone. I made sure I did one final backup on both samsung cloud and google one. However, as I've restored my data, I noticed that I'm missing a lot of text messages I've sent and received after I set up this new phone. Did neither the samsung cloud or google messages save these chats?? Is there any way to get these messages back or are they gone? I'm just so confused because some text messages that were rcs chats are now mms (which is fine, but I'm confused why it's not consistent). Any help is appreciated.

Unfortunately Samsung doesn't support its default text app (which I loved)

I'm missing texts, media, etc and HATE Google messages. This isn't just a one off thing.. what are ppl using?

Please help!!

Signal doesn't let you text nonsignal ppl anymore.

I'm so sick of missing important info

ANY recommendations are welcome and encouraged

I currently have a Samdung S10E and while I appreciated a loandf Iphone years ago- I hated the iphone about as much as I hate Google Messages (atleast my phone content still existed though)..

Please help!

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hi there, just switched from an iphone 13 to the fold 8 about a week ago. i just now started having issues where people will be talking in a group message (iphone users) and i wont receive the messages but when i send a message in the chat, everyone receives the message? i missed an entire text conversation today and didn't know until someone directly messaged me about it and i had no clue what they were talking about until they sent me a screenshot of the group chat

there are also one-off instances where i just won't receive a message. for example my sister who has an iphone messaged me and i just never received the text.

things i have tried:

- disabling and then turning RCS chats back on

- clearing google message cache

- turning mobile data off and back on

- made sure the people im texting on iphone have RCS chats enabled

- disabled imessage and facetime on my old iphone and ipad, also made sure all cellular data was turned off

- deregistered my phone number from Apples site (i did this an hour ago so maybe i just have to wait a bit longer)

- tried starting all group messages from MY end and still didnt see anyones responses

- tried uninstalling the google messages latest update

to add some more info.... the messages people send in group chats will send as an imessage and pop up blue instead of green. but then i send a message and it will send as a green RCS chat.

is there anything else i can try??? im desperate lol this is also my first android so i am not too familiar with google messages, any advice helps!

thanks!

S24 Ultra, USA, Verizon

I'm so over Google Messages. Multiple group text chains aren't working properly. Some people get the text, some don't.

Pics cropped. If they even go through. Sent a pic to my wife this morning and wouldn't go through no matter what I tried.

Inconsistent, unreliable.

Ridiculous.

Anyone else having some serious issues? Tried to send a photo and ive been getting an error saying unable to send for hours now. Now no text are going through. RCS shows "not supported". Cleared cache and all the fun stuff. still broken

s26 ultra omega supreme

at&t

OS: 9

I upgraded my s22+ to a s26+ and transferred all of my content. When I went into my google messages, I noticed missing texts from different people at different times.

I still have my old device and would like to know if there is a way to transfer the missing texts now. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I’m trying to figure out if I’m the only one dealing with this because it’s been driving me nuts for months.

I have a Galaxy S25 Ultra, and this never happened before I got the One UI 8.5 update about 5 months ago.

Basically, when I open Google Messages after it’s been sitting in the background for a while, all of the contact photos next to my conversations are initially missing. Then, about a second later, they all suddenly appear/load back in.

It’s not one particular contact. It happens with every conversation. The weird part is that if I switch away from Messages and come right back, the photos usually stay there. If I’ve been using other apps for a while and then come back to Messages, I’ll often see all the photos disappear for a second and then reload.

The actual contact photos are fine. Samsung Contacts and the Samsung Phone app show them normally.

I’ve tried a bunch of things:

- Cleared Google Messages cache

- Completely cleared Google Messages data

- Deleted all of my message threads and started over with only a couple conversations

- Cleared data/cache for various Samsung/Google Contacts components

- Cleared Google Play Services cache

- Removed my Theme Park customization to rule that out

- Tried the Google Messages beta and the current stable version

- Updated from One UI 8.5 to One UI 9

Nothing has fixed it. It happens on both the beta and stable versions of Messages, and it still happens on One UI 9.

I’ve also checked Developer Options and Google Messages is still running in the background, so it doesn’t seem like Android is simply killing the app.

At this point I’m wondering if this is some weird interaction between Google Messages and One UI, because the timing is too coincidental. But I’d really like to know if other people are seeing the same thing.

If you’re on a Galaxy S25 Ultra (or another Samsung phone) running One UI 8.5 or One UI 9, have you noticed your contact photos disappearing briefly and then loading back in when you reopen Messages?

And if you had this issue and actually found a fix, please let me know what worked. I’ve been chasing this for months and I’m running out of things to try.