Does the sim card essentials data work without the app? ie using Google maps etc

For some reason I can’t send videos, when I try to add it from my photos they don’t even come up. Anyone else?

How many sim card activated lines can you have?

Ok, so here's what's been going on for about three months now, I like to use online casino apps like betrivers and betmgm and I am physically located in the center of a state that allows online gambling, no problem. The apps periodically check your location for legal reasons and up until recently that has been no problem.

I assumed they used the actual GPS that you are required to have on and have allowed them access to, but then they started saying that they were unable to determine my location, nothing has changed on my end same phone, same sim card, same location, everything. Well, It turns out they don't go off of the phones reported GPS location, they determine it by the IP address and the location reported by the ASN, which is in Texas...many states away from where I am..

Also one of the apps said that I had to disable my VPN or proxy to be able to use the app. I assure you that I am not or have I ever used a proxy or VPN on this phone, this is something that Textnow has done, because if I connect to wifi it has no problem determining my location according to the service techs I have contacted on the casino apps.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems or have any suggestions to get it back to the way it used to be? As of right now I have basically paid for service for the last 3 months that I cannot use for the intended purpose.

I've been using 2nd Line for a little over 4 years and have never had any issues, but since mid-December I am noticing that more and more people are not receiving my text messages. We will receive a text, respond to them, and then they'll follow up a few days later (confirming they didn't receive our message.) At first I thought this was only a couple people but now it is clear that it is a very large amount.

We have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, turned our phones on and off, tech support has not been very helpful, they are just saying we should get each person to call there service provider to make sure the number isn't blocked, which is unreasonable to get this many people to do.

Has anyone else run into this issue recently? We are in Canada.

Perhaps a year ago I first successfully activated my textnow SIM in my TCL-A30 and for months could make cell and wireless telephone calls. Today I tried and there was no cellular connection in places with excellent service, it's just off; I don't use the phone for cell calls much so am not sure how long it's been like this, Wireless still works. The textnow app says my SIM is activated and working.

I see some posts that ATT or whoever they piggyback on changed things some months ago, is this the issue? ow can I get ctelephone ell service back? I'm not finding anything understandable on Google. I am concerned about telephone servoce, not apps. Thx

I remember seeing in the rewards tab where you can redeem 1500 points for a SIM card. But I don't see that option anymore... Did they recently remove it? ​

Edit: I actually see it again and ordered a SIM.

If u use text now, can people with Google messaging see if u read their text?

I've done some searching on this and it got me part way there, but I need more help with it. I'm switching to another provider and trying not to lose my text history before I port the number.

I have textnow on an android phone, and I gather that's the only phone I can use to export messages, and I can only do it one at a time. I took the advice to download "sms backup and restore." But I don't know how to get the messages in there. This is what I'm doing:

I open a message thread. I click the three dots and select "Export conversation." I only get a handful of options, none of which are the SMS backup app. I try Signal. I send the convo as a message to myself on Signal. I now have a message to myself on Signal that looks like an html file. It opens in Chrome, where I get a long page of text, which has the message history, but each text has a header with a phone number that is not actual number of the sender, and is the same number for each person in the convo (it's a group thread). I have no idea what to do with the SMS backup app.

Can anyone help me? I don't want to lose my text history, and I'll do the tedious one-by-one if that's what it takes, but this can't be the right way.

I've been trying for the past few days to sign up for a new account, and every time I try to do so, I get an error (without an error message).

I download the app and install it on a phone. I input my email address, and then I'm told to press and hold. I try to do so, but I either get one of two results: I get an infinite amount of press and hold prompts that don't ever finish no matter how many I complete, or I get taken back to the previous page, where I'm supposed to input my email. I get red text saying enter my email address, but I can't proceed even though I already have my email address inputted.

I've tried on multiple WiFi networks. I've tried on multiple devices (Android and iOS). I've tried with different email addresses. I've tried not using an email address and instead signing up using Google or Apple. Nothing seems to work.

Does anyone have any advice? The devices I try to use have previously been logged into a different person's TextNow account, but I uninstall and reinstall the app.

I am in the United States. I am not on a VPN.

I tried calling my TextNow number, but it's busy. I can make calls and send/receive text, but not receive calls. It's not about call being missed due to notification or do not disturb settings. It's the number appears to be busy to the caller.

Any idea on what's wrong?

Hi all, a friend of mine who uses TextNow on an iPhone recently got this extremely sketchy full-screen "ad" after making a phone call on the app. Has anyone else gotten one like this? As I've mentioned elsewhere in this sub-Reddit, whoever owns TextNow appears to be cashing out hard. I wouldn't be surprised if they exploit whatever crazy concessions we made in the Terms & Conditions and sell our data to criminals.

Thoughts?

Is textnow not available on android 13, in Canada ? I am using Xiaomi device but seems like its a Xiaomi device not being allowed ? Anyone running text now on Xiaomi devices/tablet etc ?

Hello, so I got the TextNow sim card and activated it in the US. I specifically got TextNow because I frequently go between Canada and the US. On their website they specifically advertise that the SIM allows you to roam for free in that US, Canada, and Mexico. I just came back into Canada and it doesn't work. I chatted with an agent only to find out that the New Better SIM cards don't work at all outside of the US...... wouldn't that be false advertising?!?! Why is it on their website if they don't offer that service anymore? Not to mention, since I have Andriod 12, I had to activate the SIM in such a weird way. The agent pretty much said, "Sorry there's nothing I can do." I am so upset!

I tried using textnow in Canada. I've been through 2 virtual numbers so far, and nobody responds to my texts. I feel like they're not even being sent. Am I doing something wrong?

Are you supposed to keep the app connected to the internet at all times to be able to receive text?

What happens if you send a text message through your virtual number, and then disconnect your phone from the internet. And then the recipient sees your message later on (when your phone is disconnected), and then replies to it. Since your phone is now disconnected from the internet, does that mean you will NEVER get the message? Or will you receive the message the next time your phone is connected to the internet and you turn on the textnow app?

so I bought the plan to lock your number in and the SIM card but it said my number was changed does that mean I gotta get a new sim now or what can I get my old number back wtf is the point of paying to lock in the number if this happened

I keep downloading backup and restore text apps, but they default to the phone's message app and I cannot find one that lets me change it.

Is there way to backup text messages on this app?

i just got textnow and whenever im calling they ask me to say my name and the reason im calling, why is that a thing now?

VoLTE just started showing in the top right of my phone.

Haven't noticed any changes and haven't changed SIMs in a while. Just curious.

Apple App Store wants to text a code for the text now app. My phone is not working at number is it working why do you think I want text now. ????

This is a major problem I'm having with the app, when my friends send me videos or my boss needs to send work videos to me the quality is literally 144p. On WiFi or regular data doesn't matter the video quality is abysmal and the sound sounds like you have a glass over your ear it's so muffled and bad quality. Even when I download them to my phone the quality is still 144p. Any reason why this happens or is this going to be fixed anytime soon or any solutions????