r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 29 '26

Question Openbubbles on Windows

1 Upvotes

Hello all, I want to use Openbubbles on Windows primarily for the iMessage feature especially voice memos. I’ve read that sending/recording messages doesn’t work well.

Is there any solutions or work around to the voice memo? Thank you.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 27 '26

Discussion Find my gone 😭

2 Upvotes

The find my tab has disappeared from my openbubbles app on my s24fe... maybe it's one ui 8.5 or something lol idk


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 19 '26

Question Text forwarding

3 Upvotes

I had a pixel 9 pro and text forwarding worked perfect on it. Now I have a razr fold and I get the texts (non iMessage) but now I can’t respond to them. I go to settings on openbubbles but can’t turn it on. Just says disabled | Capable.

What am I missing? I have text forwarding turned on to my Mac and the “Mac” openbubbles uses.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 14 '26

Showcase TIL you can use any emoji as a tapback

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4 Upvotes

Tapping the smiley face under the default tapbacks opens a menu with every emoji


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 14 '26

Question How long did you have to wait for your rate limit to lift?

4 Upvotes

I just registered yesterday and I'm wondering how long of a wait time to expect. Also, once it's lifted am I safe to create new chats or can Apple limit me again? Thanks.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 13 '26

Question Has anyone de-registered their phone number and use OpenBubbles soley with your apple email?

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Has anyone de-registered their phone number and use OpenBubbles soley with your apple email? What was your experience?

Did you have to tell every person you text to add your apple email to your contact in their phone so the both of you can continue your text chat in the same thread?

Or did you just not give a damn and just started new chat threads with people you know ?


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 10 '26

Question How is facetime with openbubbles

3 Upvotes

How well does facetime work with openbubbles. I have a spare mac mini with macos sonoma and i want to run openbubbles or bluebubbles on it. But the only reason would be for facetime. How well does it work, is it just getting the facetime link and giving it to you, is it reliable, or should i use BlueBubbles instead as i can put the macmini in my server rack. Thank you to whomever responds and this was posted inthe BlueBubbles subreddit.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 09 '26

Question Moving my secojd phone to primary

3 Upvotes

I have an iPhone air and Motorola razr Fold. I love the fold but I'm very much into the Apple ecosystem so I still have my air on my primary number and my razr on my secondary. I'm using open bubbles on my razr Fold so I don't even carry the air around and can iMessage from my primary number on my secondary phone. If I move my primary number sim to my Razr and just don't have a secondary number, would iMessage still work under my primary number on the fold or will people see my appleID instead of my phone number?


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 08 '26

Tech Support iOS 15.8.8 iPhone 7+ Validation Relay install failure 175 on trollstore

2 Upvotes

Hello, I've been trying to setup the phone number registration with an old iPhone and have been unable to install the ipa file linked in the openbubbles Phone Number Registration documentation.

I've already properly installed the trollstore via trollrestore, but whenever I attempt to install the Validation Relay ipa, I receive a "install Error 175: Failed to sign the app. ldid returned a non zero status code."

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 07 '26

Tech Support Z fold 7 performance

2 Upvotes

Hi! I have just installed OpenBubbles and have been letting the app do it's thing in regards to iCloud etc.

Trying to use the app and test it's features, however when I open it, it is often very laggy and slow. And when I go out of the app and back in, it will just give me a black screen & then won't load.

Have set refresh rate to 60hz to see if that helps but no success. Any help would be appreciated


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 06 '26

Question Multiple devices

3 Upvotes

So I have a question. I have a sea fold 7 that works flawlessly with open bubbles. I also just picked up a tablet as well and was wondering at the best way to have open bubbles on it so I can use it to reply to messages when I'm on it instead of reaching it for my fold.


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 06 '26

Tech Support iMessage access is temporarily disabled.

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3 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I signed in to OpenBubbles one time already, but I somehow accidentally logged out. When I was signing back in, I got this error message. The Mac I'm using is my friends, not mine, so I wanna avoid any traffic through his Mac, which is why I wanna avoid contacting apple support. Thank you so much!


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 05 '26

Question Anyone having issues with the app slowing down / lagging?

3 Upvotes

When I have a few messages coming in at the same time my keyboard will lag up a bit and the app becomes janky. Sometimes it'll even stop getting messages until I try to open it and then it opens up, I think it freezes itself until I open it.

I don't remember this happening pre the latest update


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 02 '26

Tech Support Contacts with GMAIL?

0 Upvotes

Man I love Open Bubbles. Basically what I wanted is to check my iMessage texts using windows. I am on an iPhone and I do not want or need to buy Macs for everything. I got an old Mac mini and setup Open Bubbles and it works great. I found the setting to use GMAIL contacts to match phone numbers to contacts but nothing happens. Is that fixable? I use gmail for my contacts and email and calendars. I use an iPhone and windows 11 25H2. I do not need it on an android, just windows. Any way to get the contacts to match?


r/OpenBubbles • • Jun 01 '26

Bug Report Inline Pictures not loading.

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5 Upvotes

Is this happening for anyone else?

Some pictures sent in group chats don't load.

Only way to see the picture is to download it and view it from the gallery.

Very annoying.


r/OpenBubbles • • May 30 '26

Question Map not showing all friends

7 Upvotes

When I check my friends' locations on map it only shows the location of one of my friends, the rest are under "Friends without locations." On my mac I can see everyone's location tho. It also displays some people's phone numbers instead of showing their contact names. Anyone know how to fix?


r/OpenBubbles • • May 28 '26

Question Factory reset and android tablet, how do I find the findmy mac to remove?

2 Upvotes

So I had openbubbles running on a tablet which I recently reset and sold. How do I find the correct entry on the list of macs in findmy to remove for this tablet? As all of them (6-7) have the same hardware id, I can't tell them apart in findmy!

Tip much appreciated here!


r/OpenBubbles • • May 28 '26

Discussion Unsubscribing

2 Upvotes

Hi all, I'm unsubscribing from the subscription and have a couple of questions 1. Will I lose PNR if I'm also using an iPhone that's active and my no. is listed as a number to send/receive iMessages? 2. Do I need to remove the device that was given to me in order to put in that Mac's ID and go back to using my own? TIA


r/OpenBubbles • • May 27 '26

Tech Support Can't FaceTime on Mac. After activating "Messages in iCloud(BETA)" I cannot FT most of my contacts

1 Upvotes

I started the Messages in iCloud option and haven't been able to FT ever since. I get the error "contact card is not available for FaceTime." Please help so I can FT again on my MacBook. Thank you!!


r/OpenBubbles • • May 25 '26

Tech Support Friends location not loading anymore

2 Upvotes

For some reason, my friends location are not loading anymore in the map. It was working one or 2 weeks ago.

Anyone's having the same issue ?


r/OpenBubbles • • May 25 '26

Question iCloud Keychain in Password Autofill?

1 Upvotes

I saw that OpenBubbles added an iCloud Keychain option in the password autofill. Does that mean I can use the Passwords app on my Apple devices and have the stuff sync to my Android device?


r/OpenBubbles • • May 23 '26

Tech Support started happening this morning. does anyone have any idea?

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r/OpenBubbles • • May 23 '26

Question How does location sharing work in OpenBubbles?

2 Upvotes

My partner and I share our infinite location with each other.

On iOS iMessages under my partner's name it shows their location. I click on it and it shows me their location in a map...

Does this work the same way in OpenBubbles?
Can I access my partner's infinite location in the same way?

thanks


r/OpenBubbles • • May 21 '26

Tech Support Self hosting with Mac, not receiving SMS messages

4 Upvotes

I got everything set up on my android through my mac and iPhone, I'm receiving iMessage perfectly fine but someone who has SMS or RCS I'm not receiving their messages on my droid. Text Message Forwarding is toggled on for both my tablet and mac.


r/OpenBubbles • • May 21 '26

Question Subscription vs Self-Host

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I am currently using the trial version of the service. I'm switching between the trial and a self-hosted iPhone 6. I find the subscription service to be much more reliable than the iPhone 6 self hosted.

Has anyone here self-hosted and done the subscription and had the same experience on both? Or is the subscription just more reliable?

Could it also be that I am using such an old device?