![]() ![]() Stock up to date Galaxy S3 on Verizon.no root. When i try to open that app to see if the texts are being downloaded there it freezes and lags horribly. I turned off notifications on the default messaging app. I can't imagine i'm the only person having these issues.but the app has insanely positive reviews all over the internet. The weirdest thing is other times FM will work flawlessly for a few hours.but then it screws itself and starts this nonsense again. Maybe MightyText is screwing it up? I have no clue. ![]() When this happens and the app is lagging, any text messages i try to send will fail and it won't tell me until i restart the phone. I use MightyText to sync my texts with my computer and tablet and most of the time the texts appear on the computer or tablet before my phone gets them. The Meta-owned messaging platform introduced SMS integration on Android smartphones in 2016 and allowed users to view text messages alongside messages from Facebook users in a single app. Users who aren’t too attached to their dedicated SMS apps may be okay with the switch, but for other app developers, it’s a poisonous move, especially due to the potentially huge amount of people that have received the prompt.Hey so is anybody using Facebook Messenger as their default SMS app now? I really like the chat heads feature and the general look of the App instead of the default texting app or any of the others I've tried from the Play Store.įM seems to be really slow about downloading new text messages sometimes. Facebook Messenger will drop support for sending SMS messages over a cellular network soon. But even if it has, potentially millions of users could have changed their settings unwittingly.įacebook’s decision to prompt users to set Messenger as the default SMS app has two obvious benefits: The first one is that by simply merging regular SMS messages with Messenger, the social media giant keeps users inside of its app ecosystem for longer periods of time, the second is that it can preemptively steal users from other messaging apps. Considering the backlash, though, it wouldn’t be surprising if Facebook has changed the prompt across the board. Since then, the prompt has disappeared from our apps, but it’s unclear if some users are still seeing it. Messenger doesn’t modify any device settings without people agreeing to it.” If they decide to see SMS messages in Messenger and to also reply to messages from Messenger, we’ll ask people to approve any new device permissions that are required. “When they first see the prompt, they can choose to start seeing their SMS messages in Messenger by turning on the feature, or they can decide not to by tapping Settings. People can choose whether or not they wish to use it,” Facebook said. “SMS in Messenger is an optional feature. The social network giant didn’t admit to any wrongdoing, it simply provided instructions on how to change the settings via the Messenger app. In response to the criticism, Facebook sent out a statement to calm down its users. A Twitter account with the username Robert Cathles said he received the pop-up several For me, even after pressing back and confirming the setting was off, it still prompted me 4 or 5 times after. He argues that the tactic may be in violation of the Play Store policies set up by Google, since they prohibit “deceptive device settings changes.” Following that same policy, the Messenger SMS push could be classified as misleading, because it tricks “users into removing or disabling third-party apps or modifying device settings or features.”įollowing the tweet, a large number of people responded and confirmed similar experiences. Facebook Messenger wanted to be your default messaging app for, well, everything, and part of that strategy included supporting SMS texts. ![]() Messenger today has more than 900 million active users, and while it’s unclear exactly how many received the prompt, we’ve seen it here at Digital Trends, as have a number of other people.Īmir Efrati of the Information caused a ruckus on Twitter when he tweeted a screenshot of the pop-up prompt. A violation of Google Play rules? /7tZzAE5MGh VERY aggressive prompt by Facebook to add SMS to Ain’t no “No” button. You can now download Facebook’s Messenger app to your desktop WhatsApp’s biggest restriction might finally be lifted soonįacebook says Apple didn’t let it tell users about App Store tax ![]()
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