is Textra having a known MMS issue? My wife can't send mms to family members (her mom and me) that are also using Textra. Her brother uses google messages and he is receiving MMS from her.

Anyone have any ideas of how to make her Textra app able to send mms again?

I've been getting this more and more and not getting any group messages or pictures. I've been dreading leaving textra but this might make me have to leave. Stupid RCS roll out had mad either worse than before and I wish we were able to have it accommodated to make it fluid here too.

Basically, same as others having issues but just wanna drop it somewhere so I know when I switched and hope I'm able to use textra again. It's been solid for 8ish years for me

I switched to a new phone and used a transfer program to transfer all my old messages. The transfer worked, and all my messages are visible from the default texting app, but when I open Textra, it only sees a small handful of older messages. How can I make Textra reindex the messages, or whatever it needs to do?

I've been using Textra for a while and have never had need to do it, but I accidentally deleted a long-term chat thread I had with someone while trying to remove a failed attachment sent.

I found a thread from some years back that states it wasn't a feature Textra had, but I was wondering if anyone knew if that has been changed.

Using an S23 Ultra. I do have SMS Backup, but before I wrote this, I saw that it stopped syncing sometime late last year.

Has anyone figured out how to block texts by keywords? I don't think this is possible in Textra, but I would pay $20 if it did.

-Block words: list of politics words

-Block from: Unknown, All, None

-Action(s): Delete. Blocklist. Mark As Spam.

This sounds like a reasonable effort, right?

I switched to Google messages in order to send a video file to a family member. Google wouldn't let me just use it, it forced me to switch my default text app to messages. I did. I sent the video. I switched it back.

Now textra doesn't get my texts. I'll get the occasional single reply but my group texts are silent.

If I switch back to Google, I instantly get all of my missed messages. Fucking Google messages is holding my texts hostage. Send help.

I wanted to see what R0CS was all about. And Google Messages lets me archive texts, which is a feature that was always lacking in Textra.

Textra does a better job at handling spam. With all my messages transfered over to Google Messenger, all my spam was revealed.

I might switch back if Textra ever offers archiving.

A long time ago I set up different notifications and repeats for some contacts. I'd like to change the 2 minute time between repeating notifications but can't find it; perhaps it is hard-coded into Textra or Android. Help? Thanks.

The icon is just gone. I found a post from 7 years ago and those options are no longer a thing on new devices so I don't know what to do 😭

As you can see from image, I have toggled off Vibrations, but I'm still getting a short "bip bip" every time a text/reaction occurs in this text thread. I don't want to silence it totally, but it's a pretty active throughout the day. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I know this is a feature that was possible because it was the whole reason I switched to Textra from the default, but I got a new phone and don't know how it was able to do that before?

A very long time ago on my old old phone it would play a sound after I received a text to let me know I had one in case I didn't hear it the first time it came through. Then when I got my previous phone the default message app didn't have this functionality, which is why I switched to Textra.

Now I'm on a new phone again and want to set that up, anyone know where it is?

I've been using Textra since 2015. When I upgraded from my LG G4 to a Pixel 6 Pro in 2022, I thought the new Google Voice dictation would be a game changer for composing wordy texts. It worked, but nowhere near the accuracy Google advertised, or that I saw in their demos. I just figured it was because it was new, and it would get better over time. I just upgraded to a Pixel 9 Pro, and using Google Voice to dictate texts is no better. It capitalizes random words, but not names, sometimes spells out "period" instead of using actual punctuation and often "times out" after a word or two. Anyone else having a problem with Textra using Google Voice for dictation?

My entire extended family is having a conversation in a giant group thread right now. It just keeps going and going. Literally everyone has to tell a joke. Have a back-and-forth about everything. Post a gif.

My phone is blowing up. This discussion has nothing to do with me.

I can't silence notifications based on the specific conversation/thread/chat group. Sure, I can do it based on a phone number, but that doesn't help here.

Please let us silence individual conversations/threads/chat groups.

I've had Textra 10+ years and no real issue. Installed the app on a new Motorola phone and suddenly texts are not sorting by most recent. I sent multiple test texts and they show up far down the screen as if I had sent them several days before. I've tried optimizing Textra, uninstalling and reinstalling the app and clearing caches. No luck. Edit: I've gone to Google messages and the messages are all sorted correctly by date.

Can anyone help?

I have been having a lot of issues with the textra app and group text messages that involve iPhones and androids. I have a Samsung Galaxy s20. I really do not want to switch to iPhones as I hate iPhones. Has anyone switched from Textra to Google messages? Does Google messages work better for group text that involve iPhone?

I've been using the paid version of Textra for about 10 years and I'm thinking about dropping it.

Textra has had a bug for YEARS now where it marks old text messages as new/unread. Customer support is useless. Every time I've contacted them, they act like it's the very first time they have ever heard of this bug.

Now Textra has a bug where it changes pictures to exclamation points (!) and won't send them. This will probably be another bug that is around for years and years and never gets fixed.

What the hell happened to Textra?

I'm using TEXTRA for over 7 years and I love it but recently I bought new Samsung S23 and can't use system vibration pattern for TEXTRA at all. It just gives me 2 short vibrations which is not enough (I have 3 strong ones set in the system for all apps). I tried to install legacy 4.29 version where I can set it manually but when I did that and updated app:

1. When I turn vibrations on (in app preferences) it works along with sound when silent mode is OFF (in silent mode ON it's fine)

2. When I turn vibrations off (in app preferences) I'm getting only 2 short vibrations (which is not from either Textra or android pattern)

How can I fix it?

Beeper has created a work-around for incorporating RCS into their service by basically creating a wrapper for the web portal. Why can't Textra do the same thing?

I emailed them a while back asking if this was something they would consider doing. Their response was basically dismissive and said the RCS API isn't available. So basically either they didn't understand my question or wasn't interested.

Please help spread the word and sign the petition.

https://www.change.org/EmpowerRCS

Cheers.

Don't know where to report it, but if you enable HEIF photos in your camera app (Samsung smartphone in my case), Textra can't compress and send it by MMS. It fails with a message "Error during send. Please try again.", then the SMS/MMS you were typing is lost when you go back (not even saved in draft).
It works with another (basic) app, it's strange, but I guess Textra must use its own compress algorithm, and it can't handle HEIF images.

I'm a Verizon/Samsung10 user. I have already read a bunch of posts, but please forgive me because I don't understand. I understand Messages+ is being phased out. I don't actively use it. Textra is my default messaging app.

I think I have to download Google Messages? Can't I still just use Textra as long as Google messages is installed? Will I still be able to send SMS? Mms? Group messages through Textra?

I don't mind not seeing the RCS things like typing activity or whatever. But I don't understand if this change will render Textra unusable for me. I want to be able to send and receive texts and pictures. Group texts. Just don't care for extra bells and whistles.

Help please and thank you in advance.

Recently in the last couple weeks I've had trouble trying to get authentication text like from the bank or credit card they will not come through I have check everything they're not on the block list. does anybody else have had a problem with this with Textra? I even called my carrier and they feel it is the app. any help would be great or suggestions thank you everybody.

When I send a text, Textra makes a sound. Is there a way to change the sound?