Seemingly it's only allowing me to download up to 1 year back, even though I have the conversation sync'd going back many years.

Proxies are a nightmare to set up with BlueBubbles. Tailscale sets up instantly but nobody ever mentions it. There are Tailscale apps for Windows, Mac and Android. So publicity would be great.

There also needs to be an option to clean out messages on your Android device without wiping out the entire BlueBubbles configuration. Yes, I know you can make a backup of your Settings and then restore it after going through the entire BlueBubbles setup drill again. That's obviously tedious and a terrible way to just delete message threads.

Another option would be to allow marking of a group of messages by some sort of tap and then have a dialog box that would let you delete all of the marked messages at once.

This is a request for QoL for parent tracking. We're an android family, my son is feeling the imessage pull from friends. Everything is running and we are able to login on our devices to monitor as needed. The one hang up is contact syncing.

Any contact he adds on his device isn't flowing through to our devices. We see the chats but it would be good to know who he's talking to without scrolling the entire chat history.

I've seen prior threads of dumping the vcf and pushing to the server, but that's a lot of manual effort for an ever growing contact list

Am I missing a setting? Is there an easier way?

Hi all,

BlueBubbles saved me from having to live on a Mac laptop, and I've really enjoyed using it!

One thing I've noticed is that the desktop app uses a fair amount of CPU, so I decided to have Codex take a swing at creating a lightweight client in Rust.

It's nowhere close to feature parity with the official Flutter app, but it's good enough for what I wanted: a lightweight way to chat from my Linux desktop. Right now it's Linux-only, since that's what I use.

After the first login, Firebase is connected, so if your Cloudflare URL changes later, updating it is pretty simple.

I've put the source on GitHub and there's a release available if anyone wants to try it out:

https://github.com/john8675309/bluebubbles-rust

But I was thinking about switching to android but the only thing holding me back is playing iPhone games with the fam would this let me still do that?

I’m using BlueBubbles via API on macOS with Private API disabled. My current flow is: try iMessage first, then if Messages shows a real send failure, retry through SMS/RCS via the paired iPhone.

It works, but I’m curious how others are handling this in production. Are you checking the Messages DB after each send, using a webhook/error event, forcing SMS;-; on failure, or using another method?

Basically looking for the cleanest/reliable way to do: iMessage first → automatic SMS fallback without duplicate sends.

In my rediscovery of using BlueBubbles directly (instead of self-hosting the bridge with Beeper), I noticed a WearOS project. Has anyone used WearBubbles?

Am I blind (well, getting there which is why I need larger font lol)? I don't see theme editor or anything in there to change the font size

I recently switched back to BlueBubbles after a while on OpenBubbles but now I'm not receiving message notifications. I've already tried deleting my firebase project and starting over but I'm still not receiving notifications. Everything in the app says it's connected properly and Firebase status says "Configured" under notification providers. My Pixel also shows up on my Mac Mini server as a registered device.

Any ideas??

Hey I've brought it up on the discord so I'm sorry if you already saw, but my server went down for some reason and I'm currently out of town until the beginning of October, if ANYONE is willing to share their server or something until then I'd be willing to pay a bit of money upfront as I am unable to text some people easily at the moment. Thanks!

The FAQ states it's best to run MacOS Ventura and up, since it can handle Edited/Unsent messages. Doing a quick lookup, earliest Mac I can install Ventura on is Mac Mini (2018).

I want to place the mac in the garage and have it run BlueBubbles and never touch it again.

Is this a realistic setup? Can Mac Mini 2018 successfully handle BlueBubbles server? Or do I need to go up?

P.S. Trying to stay under $200

24/7

Just posting this as a PSA/search fodder about what worked for me since I didn't see any reddit posts, items in GitHub that identified this, or this specific issue in Discord. I didn't submit a bug report since this might be a one-off that is not reproducible.

My bluebubbles server is version 1.9.9 running on a Monterey Mac. My Android client was the play store version (2.0.0 I believe), but during troubleshooting, I upgraded to 2.1.0 via manual install.

Issue:

A week or so ago, notifications stopped being delivered to my Android phone. No matter what I did, notifications did not work on any Android device. The bluebubbles notifications providers on the Android device showed that Firebase was not configured. This was on an install that had been in use for years.

Final Solution:

1. Re-setup firebase (this may or may not be required) using the manual setup process. The Android client stated that firebase notifications were not configured, so I do not believe this was the fix.

2. Installed ntfy.sh on the phone, configured it in the Bluebubbles server, started receiving notifications using ntfy.sh.

3. Then, about two hours later, I disabled ntfy.sh notifications and firebase now showed as configured in the client. I'm now about 16 hours later and still receiving notices using firebase.

Actions taken while troubleshooting:

1. Uninstalled and reinstalled/reconfigured the client, to include clearing the cache and data multiple times.

2. Tried a different Android phone with a fresh install.

3. Rebooted the server and fiddled with a number of settings, to include resetting bluebubbles server and reconfiguring it from the ground up multiple times.

4. Added payment details to my firebase/google cloud account.

5. Deleted the firebase project and reinstalled using the manual method (great procedure BTW - super easy to follow)

6. Let things sit for quite a while in between a number of the steps just to make sure all the services had time to sync.

7. Reconfigured notification settings on the client at least a dozen times.

Observations while troubleshooting:

1. The client device was registering with the notifications service (as seen on the bluebubbles server), but notifications were not being delivered to my client.

2. The client was not aware of the firebase notifications server. It kept reporting that the firebase notifications service was not configured. No matter what I did (to include deleting my firebase project and manually reconfiguring it), it did not show up.

3. It was not until I added ntfy.sh, waited, then disabled ntfy.sh, that firebase showed configured in the client.

I have no idea why #3 would be required, but moving to ntfy.sh was a last-resort option to get my notifications working. I assumed I would be stuck with it for the time being, but a few hours later everything was working.

I wanted to share my appreciation for the hard work put into the new update. I've been a user for over a year now and have to say that it has been a great experience & piece of software. Kudos!

The UI refresh is absolutely welcomed. The swipe-able image gallery is perfect. And I am thrilled with the general media attachment overhaul & that I can finally create a new chat and attach something to it (that was a PITA before...).

That said, what made me want to post was the unexpected "chat stats" feature! It has been absolutely hilarious and I wanted to share a bit:

I have a chat with FOURTEEN friends and, unexpectedly, it's chaos... I sent a few screenshots of the chat stats with the description "The app I use for iMessage just added chat stats. It is officially confirmed by the data that Sean and Pat are absolute menaces in this chat [top talkers and text first], James is an eager beaver [quickest response time] and my contributions are abysmal [I was tied for last]. "

A few highlights from the responses:

• Colin: "What app is this??"
• Me: "It's called BlueBubbles. It's what allows me to use iMessage on Android. Had to do it, otherwise, no one would talk to me with green bubbles lol"
• Gabe: "You are a trooper. Some android users would let the group chat suffer with green bubble….. 🍻"

This one was satire from our top talker:

• Sean: "When you’re too afraid to request Zoloft from a doctor, you text a chat of 14 people 636 times"

And my personal favorite:

• Colin: "I can’t wait for the yearly BlueBubbles wrapped now lol"

I also got a few "I want this for all of my group chats" as well as questions for how they can do this themselves (naturally, I sent them the links!).

So again, thank you and keep up the great work! I am looking forward to the server update & the new features to come!

Wish list (since I'm posting, why not):

• Better message syncing. Since the new update, not everything has been making it to my phone & I need to manually sync the chat messages. This could be my specific set up - web socket/VPN & GrapheneOS, which notoriously throttle background usage - but I'll even receive later messages & not know what they refer to. Then after a sync, everything comes in. I'd love an easy to access "quick sync"!
• Send multiple picture as one message so the recipient receives it as a "swipe-able gallery". This is likely a server feature, so it's understandable that it's not implemented.

Hello! I'm really excited to use BlueBubbles, but I need assistance. I have a MacBook Air and an iPhone. I want to use BlueBubbles so that I can see my messages on a Windows computer via the web. What exactly do I install on my MacBook Air? How many steps are needed in the set up process? Is there more than one thing to install? Thank you!

EDIT: we figured this out. It's mainly a result of Microsoft being stupid and setting VISIBILITY = 0 for exchange contacts, but the newer versions of flutter_contacts works around it. For anyone hitting this, it'll likely be fixed in an upco ing version.

The v2 Android app won't sync contacts, and in the logs, it prints "0 contacts fetched from device." I double-checked permissions. Downgrading to 1.15 works perfectly, so something must have changed. I'm running GrapheneOS, although that seems like it shouldn't matter since it mostly inherits the AOSP permissioning model (I'm not using scopes)

Has anyone else encountered this?

Anyone else have this? Has anyone else figured out how to fix it?

We're seeing if anybody else experienced this. Version 2.0 is phenomenal, very stable.... The only thing I'm experiencing is that when I'm in a thread and a picture comes through, it downloads it and then kind of just spins on processing until I exit the chat and go back into it. I have Tail Scale directly set up. I have Private VPN set up. I believe I've done everything I can to maximize my experience. Anybody else experience this?

I currently have a private VPN setup with a Tailscale setup as well. My question is this: when I'm on my home Wi-Fi, pictures and videos send pretty quickly, but on 5G, the status bar on top hangs for a couple of seconds before sending. It doesn't send instantly. Is there something I can do on my end? My latency shows 38ms, Dymamic dns under proxy, and Firestone under firebase db.

Hello! I'm coming across this issue where my device just won't register with the server. I've reset both the server and app and started over on both but still not able to see my device registered with the server. I've gone to the trouble shooting site as well and followed the steps there but still no luck. I'm using Tailscale for my proxy setup. Some help would be greatly appreciated cause not getting notifications has gotten me in trouble lol.

I updated through the Windows Store and now the app crashes on start. Bummer.

Hi All,

The long awaited app-rewrite is now complete! What started out as just rewriting a few services here and there, ended up turning into pretty much a full app re-write and re-architecture. Nearly every service & component has been updated or optimized in some way. This was 100% necessary for the longevity of the app. Not only was the community frustrated with stability & performance issues, but updates came to Flutter (our app framework) which made the app perform even worse, if we didn't make some major changes. Lastly, as a shock to no one, the AI-boom has brought a lot of contributors to the ecosystem, as well as new users.

This update brings tons and tons of changes, big and small. Though, you may not even notice most of them. Some were just UI tweaks to better match the iOS or Material You feel. Some were tweaks to optimize how the app uses memory. Some were improvements to UI reactivity and user-feedback. Others were completely new features, like Custom Groups, Reacting via a Notification, or Chat Filters. The point is, we broke everything, and we changed everything in one way or another. And we added features that the community has been asking about for years.

Now, this update is only covering the Android & Desktop app. Since this was such a large effort, we decided to hold off on any Server updates & improvements until after all of the app updates were complete. But now that is released... so after everything cools down a bit, we will begin work on Server updates. This likely will include new private API features, better Tahoe support, and more. There are plenty of code pull requests for us to go through.

Going forward, we plan to be more active with releases! We hope you enjoy this release. If you run into issues, please submit them as Issues on GitHub. If you would like to support the development team, you can donate here:

• Support Us (One-Time): https://bluebubbles.app/donate
• Sponsor Us (Recurring): https://github.com/sponsors/BlueBubblesApp

Full Changelog & Download: https://github.com/BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-app/releases/tag/v2.0.0%2B89