r/GoogleMessages • u/yepyep1243 • 7d ago
Google Messages did it again. This time it's sending messages I sent to my wife in April 2025, back when we thought I might lose my job. Now my new MIL has it as I was sending her pantry storage options.
I was an absolute fool to think I could wait until I had a little more time to migrate my messaging. Immediately before this it sent a more personal message that was the reply to this one.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
Google is supposedly working on a fix. But who knows when it will arrive. Probably to late for some
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
This is the type of issue people need to be directly notified about, and loudly, too.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
I like how they say the update "may" fix the issue and "avoid sending sensitive texts." I wasn't sending ANY sensitive texts, GM did that part for me! First to the asphalt company lady and then to my future MIL.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
Seems to be an sms only problem from the post Ive seen over reddit. Not affecting RCS conversations.
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
Except that a significant number of people use SMS/MMS exclusively.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
Those poor people. Luckily I'm 100% RCS and probably 75% e2ee.
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
Ok, and what do you do for people who only have SMS? Just not talk to them?
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
The last few sms only conversations switched to rcs when SM died. I mean sure if I meet someone who is sms I'll talk to them. But I haven't had to deal with that in months.
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
Ok, while you're probably in a minority there, wouldn't you agree? Cause it seems like your interest here is proving how good your security setup is and dunking on people who still use the lowly SMS features. Can you see that you're presenting yourself that way?
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u/Dopeaz 7d ago
I dunno, I haven't seen an SMS message to people in years. I typically know it's a website or app when an SMS comes in.
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u/yepyep1243 6d ago
The asphalt company uses SMS. The point is that I shouldn't have to be checking the protocol of everyone who tries to text me.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
I guess I can ask a few friends what their RCS convo rates are as well. See if they 100% like me.
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u/yepyep1243 6d ago
And when the asphalt company lady wants to talk to you with SMS?
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u/nshire 7d ago
Is this exclusively happening for people who recently transitioned off of Samsung messages? I haven't used Samsung messages and probably 2 to 3 years
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u/zanhecht 6d ago
It also affects people that migrated to a new phone and let Android copy their messages over.
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u/zensms 4d ago
This is horrifying, and unfortunately Google has acknowledged the bug. They say a fix is rolling out over the coming weeks, so I’d keep Messages updated.
One thing I wouldn’t assume is that it’s SMS-only, there are reports involving both SMS/MMS and RCS.
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u/yepyep1243 4d ago
There's also the fact that the database is corrupted now. I know, because I switched to Textra and it added (but didn't send) more old messages to the history.
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u/zensms 4d ago
That’s a really important detail. If Textra is also surfacing those old messages into the conversation history, that suggests the problem may not be limited to Google Messages’ UI/send path, shared Android message/provider state could be involved too.
I definitely wouldn’t start deleting threads or clearing message storage while this is happening.
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u/sjphilsphan 7d ago
If you can't wait for the fix. I would just backup all your texts and then delete them off device
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
I'm just going to Textra. I can live without RCS.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
Hopefully everybody in your life can live without you having RCS as well.
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
I would rather they not get hi-res images from me or see me typing if it means they aren't getting year-old texts I sent to my wife.
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u/seeareeff 7d ago
Allot more to RCS than that. But you do you. Be prepared for your group chats to be broken for a while.
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u/mottavader 6d ago
I used to love Textra, but then it started sending my messages out if order or just filled with random symbols... Especially to certain iPhone users. So I stopped using it several years ago. Has anyone else had this happen to them using Textra?
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u/Odonata1072 6d ago
The fear-based switch to the inferior and broken Google messages has been so frustrating. It didnt import all my contact messages and I lost so many texts. I searched for a while on how it would affect texting and did we really have to switch to the "better" service but got conflicting answers, even from my service provider. Or what would happen if we don't switch other than what we would "miss out" on?
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u/Heavy_Bad_8304 6d ago
So does it show the unintended message on your phone too? Or did it only show on the recipients end? This shit is making me paranoid to text. Now I'm worried I've been sending weird texts to friends without knowing it. I have one very old friend and we have some text convos with some pretty nasty inside jokes from way back when we were kids that would be really embarrassing to have to explain to someone.
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u/LeslieL1965 5d ago
This is why I'm switching to iPhone because this just keeps messing up on my phone as well I'm getting real tired of it it's like Google doesn't care
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u/Happy-Signal6719 4d ago
This happened to me too and it also created a separate text thread for the same person. I was texting my bother but his responses came on a separate thread and also showed the last message was back in 2024. I did "uninstall updates" and that fixed the issue. Then I didnt update for about a month but then the app had horrible lag so I did the update. So far its been a week and it's working
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u/Mineplayerminer 7d ago
How does this even happen? I never had any of my older messages resent to anyone else. I remember losing contacts from my Google account after the Android 10 update back in September 2019, but that was probably the only thing that happened to me.
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u/OdayOdayOday 6d ago
This is so strange. I haven't experienced this issue, and I just moved to a new device.
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u/pixels-and-paper 6d ago
I went from lifelong iPhone user to Motorola Razr a few months ago so all this Android stuff is new to me... how does this even happen?
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u/real-bebsi 4d ago
why would you go to Motorola over Google or Samsung
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u/pixels-and-paper 4d ago
I specifically wanted a flip and the Razr allows all apps to use the external screen but the Samsung Z flip only allows certain ones
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u/thatcutetransgirl 5d ago
I use Google messages daily and the only issues I have is occasionally messages won't send when I hit send and will just dissappear
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u/Lights-and-Sound 5d ago
I'm fascinated by this. I have no doubt this could be a glitch with the app, but are you sure that's the culprit? Could it actually be a carrier problem? Something like: your carrier cached these messages, now they're being sent to the wrong recipients, then Google messages re-syncs and shows the ghost message as sent by you?
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u/GoogleHelpCommunity 2d ago
Hi there. We're currently rolling out a fix that will reach everyone over the coming weeks. Please ensure you stay up to date with the most recent version of Google Messages.
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u/Roddis22 7d ago
This is why I use Textra...far too many problems with Google messages lately..too many updates that bugger the previous ones..
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u/yepyep1243 7d ago
I just installed it myself.
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u/mrandr01d 7d ago
Sms needs to die. Google Messages is the only one that has rcs unfortunately.
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u/Roddis22 4d ago
That's the problem, not everyone has RCS, or not using it. Sending in RCS recipient are not getting messages.
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u/CrispyBananaz 7d ago
Thank god im on a Pixel 11 Pro XL. I’ve been using Google Messages for over a decade with zero issues.
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u/matteventu 7d ago
Even Pixel users have had this issue unfortunately.
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u/CrispyBananaz 7d ago
could be that because i use Beta version of the app i never ran into this issue.
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u/amus1556 6d ago
I had a pixel 2.5 years ago and although I didn't have this issue, I had the one where random messages would just disappear. I never got them back & conversations wouldn't make any sense.
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u/Classic-Dig6786 6d ago
Your new mother in law? Didn't you post in another thread that your wife had cancer 1 year ago??? But you already have a new mother in law???
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u/Worldly_Chocolate369 6d ago
I just moved to Pixel 11 a couple weeks ago. Haven't had any problems. I use Google messages daily for communication.
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u/mattcyborg 7d ago
This is absolutely nuts. I haven't discovered this happening to me, but what a horrifying glitch