woodenskewer@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoThe Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageThe Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago.lemmy.worldwoodenskewer@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square127fedilinkfile-text
They really didn’t have to redesign a text box. Please stop reinventing the wheel. I don’t need another pop up in my life.
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoUK here, I still use SMS for people who aren’t on Signal. I don’t use WhatsApp and I’m on Android, so no iMessage, so SMS is the great leveller that will always work. It’s a shame Signal dropped SMS fallback as it was really useful.
minus-squareKilgore Trout@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoOne of the issues they explained when they dropped SMS is that it was misleading to users to have unencrypted communications in an app that promotes privacy over all.
UK here, I still use SMS for people who aren’t on Signal.
I don’t use WhatsApp and I’m on Android, so no iMessage, so SMS is the great leveller that will always work.
It’s a shame Signal dropped SMS fallback as it was really useful.
One of the issues they explained when they dropped SMS is that it was misleading to users to have unencrypted communications in an app that promotes privacy over all.