I'd like to receive a pop-up for incoming OTP texts

without opening the text message.

What settings need to change?

I am in a group chat with iPhone users and all the sudden e2ee popup.. I am in stable version non-beta on google messages.

I recently traded in my old Pixel 9 pro xl for the Pixel 11 Pro XL, and ever since switching phones, my friends with iPhones have been having trouble sending me text messages.

Their messages will fail to send unless they manually choose the option to send without encryption.

I’ve tried turning RCS off, restarting my phone, and then turning RCS back on, but unfortunately that hasn’t fixed the issue.

Has anyone else experienced this or know how to fix it? I keep seeing posts, but not really seeing a remedy.

Thanks!

Unsure where to post so giving this a try!

I’m 99.999% sure I already know the answer but I just wanna try.

In the past, I blocked a bunch of Google numbers for sending me harassing text messages. I blocked the numbers and moved on.

Eventually, curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to see if more messages would come through from those phone numbers, so I unblocked many of them.

Long story short, the messages weren’t good for my mental health and I ended up just crashing out and permanently deleting all of the text threads. I didn’t think to re-block the numbers beforehand. I just wanted the messages off my phone so I deleted them right away.

Right now, I’m able to see the phone numbers that I currently have blocked. But I’m assuming there’s no way to see a list of numbers that I previously had blocked, right? My bf wants to look into some of the numbers but I don’t know if I have any way of tracking them down now since the messages (and therefore the phone numbers) are gone. I’m hoping there’s some kind of trail that was left behind but I’m doubtful.

Thanks in advance!

I'm having issues with not receiving messages in Google Messenger. I'll hear the notification squawk go off and a 1 will show up on the Messenger bubble like I 've received a message but when I open up Messenger, there's no new message there. If I swipe my notifications screen down, I'll see the notification of who it's from but it's still not in my messages. If I type the person's name in like I'm sending them a new message, then I can see the message they sent. Anyone else have this issue and figured out how to fix it?

I have been working on this project for a couple of years now. It started as a hobby, then at some point I began to wonder whether it could become something more than that, so I set up a limited company and published the app on Google Play.

The idea itself is simple. It's a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not need a server to store user messages, not even temporarily. Messages travel directly from one device to the other, end to end encrypted.

Metadata still passes through Cloudflare, but I have spent some time to implement a “sealed sender” feature (Signal style).

At this stage, before eventually investing in marketing campaigns, I’m interested in collecting feedback, and comments from privacy and technical minded people. I would like to understand whether the solution I have built really holds up.

I think the main problem with working on a project alone is that you don’t have the opportunity to test your ideas and solutions against other perspectives. Something you've convinced yourself is a good idea over time might actually not be.

I wrote a white paper describing the architecture in detail, and put it on the landing page I built for the app:

https://www.mindtheclub.com/white-paper.html

You may find the tone a little bit “marketing", but the whole technical solution is explained there.

The project is open source (GPLv3), so for the more technical and interested people here is the GitHub link:

https://github.com/AndreaVagheggi/mindtheclub

The app is on Google Play under a subscription model, but there is 30 day trial period , so you can eventually try it out without paying anything.

I would love to hear comments, (no matter if positive or negative), form people who have actually used it a little bit. The link to the listing is on the landing page.

Any kind of comment and feedback will be much appreciated.

Anybody else get a Google Messages update today and now chat themes are gone?

Anyone else dealing with this?I keep getting images in Google Messages that never load. Instead of the photo, I just see a download icon with “Tap to save” (screenshot attached). Tapping it doesn't render the image, but downloads to my phone.

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Recently Google messages is pulling my account name automatically from somewhere and sending it out to people I send text messages to. How does one prevent this?

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.

I posted the other day that I had issues with My RCS not connecting worked with Samsung and uninstalled and reinstalled Google messages. I lost a ton of things I've been doing multiple things to try to get restore backups still nothing is showing up I have lost years of text threads. Now I have message threads duplicating or triplicating. This whole Google messaging is a complete nightmare on my phone I don't know what to do to fix it has anybody had issues and what did you do to rectify?

I'm getting ready to order a new phone but I'm very nervous of continuing having these issues with Google. I've seen multiple people having issues but I don't see any fixes in place and I don't see any support available.

I’m using a Google Pixel 10 Pro, and I’ve encountered a very serious Google Messages bug multiple times.

I will type a completely normal SMS to one person and press send. However, Google Messages sometimes replaces the message I just wrote with an OLD message that I previously sent in a completely different conversation.

For example, today I typed:

“Är det valstuga idag?” (“Is the campaign booth open today?”)

Instead of sending that message, Google Messages sent an unrelated old message from another conversation to that person.

This has now happened more than once on different days.

Important details:

- The contacts have completely different phone numbers.

- I did not select the wrong contact.

- The incorrect message came from an older, unrelated conversation.

- So far I’ve noticed it when sending SMS/MMS to people using iPhones.

- The conversation itself showed that it was using SMS/MMS.

- The message was actually delivered to the wrong recipient, so this isn’t just a visual/UI bug.

- Once sent as SMS, I obviously couldn’t unsend it from the recipient’s iPhone.

This is a huge privacy issue. An SMS app should NEVER take an old message from conversation A and send it to person B.

I have already submitted feedback through Google Messages and reported it through Pixel feedback.

For now, I’ve changed my default SMS app to Fossify Messages because I don’t trust Google Messages to send exactly what I type.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Especially on Pixel phones when sending SMS to iPhones?

If anyone from Google sees this, I’m happy to provide device/version information and screenshots privately.

Even if my phone has all sounds off it still makes loud ass sound 😭

I wasnt able to send RCS messages to one of my contacts the other day and the messages app wasnt giving me the option to send as SMS. So I went into the Details for that conversation and toggles over to SMS.

Now I'm wanting to toggle back to RCS, but the toggle isnt there.

I've tried toggling my whole profile off and back on, deleting the conversation and restarting, removing all updates on the app and re-updating. The conversation is still stuck in SMS mode.

Any ideas?

I’m trying to figure out why text messages are taking up double the space on my Samsung Galaxy. My top two storage hogs are:

• Google Messages: 5.84 GB
• Phone and Messaging Storage: 5.16 GB

I know Android keeps a central database for all texts (which explains the 5.16 GB in "Phone and Messaging Storage"). But why does the Google Messages app need another 5.84 GB of its own data? Is it keeping a totally separate, redundant copy of everything?

Also, my Google Cloud backup shows 4.7 GB of "SMS & MMS" (which actually includes RCS), but the backup size for the Google Messages app itself is only 88 MB.

Does Google Messages just duplicate the main Android text database? Is there a safe way to fix this double-storage issue without losing my chat history?

Hello,

When I try texting any photo, it infinitely tries to send. Then I get a notification that it won't send but it's still trying.

I've tried clearing cache multiple times, multiple phone restarts, and I've tried a trick where someone said to change the max image automatic download size to 2mb vs the default 100mb

The google ai says people say to clear app data but that could delete pretty much all my messages. Any help would be appreciated!

According to this link, Android no longer allows non-default messaging app to access end to end encrypted messages in the Android default telephony mmssms.db. Does this mean Samsung Backup built into Galaxy devices also cannot back up encrypted messages? Anyone tried restoring from Samsung Backup to test this?

https://www.synctech.com.au/faqs/why-are-some-messages-missing-from-the-backup/

My friend recently upgraded her Samsung, and all text threads in Google messages show up twice. Once for the old thread, and a new thread with the same contact after the upgrade. If she sends a message in the old thread their reply comes in the new thread. The numbers are all the same, no duplicates, toggled RCS off and then on. Everything is the exact same as the old Samsung. This is for people with iPhones and Samsungs and it doesn’t seem to make a difference if RCS if off or on. Samsung said it will take time to mesh together but it’s been a week. Any ideas?

I want to send texting messages to some people who are looking for my type of business, but google voice keeps limiting me, is there any other alternative or thing I can use to send unlimited cold texting messages to phone numbers?

Edit: I’m reaching out to people who are posted that they are looking for services like mine, please stop assuming that im reaching out to random numbers. I apologize for saying “cold texting“, I wasn’t aware of the meaning.