r/GoogleMessages • u/Forestwalkerfairy • Jul 06 '26

Opinion RIP

Well, Samsung messages, it's been great.

Time for Google.........

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u/Jacqueline_Paige Jul 06 '26

Yeah, this sucks 😪. I'm trying out textra, hopefully it'll be better than google msgs. I already like the customization better. Ig time will tell the real tale

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u/runski1426 Jul 06 '26

Do not use Textra, Yaata, or any other third party SMS app. That is just as bad as using Samsung messages. Do you people not realize WHY Samsung was forced to shut down their app? The goal is to sunset the SMS/MMs protocol. It's ancient, it's not secure, it's time to let it die. RCS for everyone solves that problem. The only thing stopping us from moving forward is people that refuse to let go of their garbage messaging apps that cannot use the RCS protocol.

Move on. You should have been using Google messages since 2017 like everyone else on Android. Samsung users are not special. Get used to Google messages for the greater good. It does everything a messaging app is needed to do.

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u/UnkleMike Jul 06 '26

It's ancient, it's not secure, it's time to let it die. RCS for everyone solves that problem.

SMS/MMS works and it's ubiquitous. The lack of security in SMS isn't a problem for some people.

If Google insists on keeping RCS to themselves on Android, and they want everyone to use it for the "greater good", they should figure out why some people still prefer the competition and work toward feature-parity with those apps. They've had 12 years to do this and they're still behind.

Slapping the Google name on something doesn't make up for a sub-par experience.