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What’s missing from the text and photos functionality of text messaging, that you need from this app?
Photo/video sharing will undergo re-encoding under some circumstances, like mixed Andoir/iOS groups
How can you even do mixed Android/iOS groups right now from iOS? I keep seeing people refer to that, but before I installed the iOS 18 Beta that added RCS, I tried and non-iMessage “group chats” were essentially just a broadcast list where the recipients just saw it as coming from me.
I think that only happens when one of the phones doesn't support MMS (which afaik is pretty much just ancient flip phones unless your carrier doesn't support it for some reason). Otherwise group chats work "fine" but with terrible image/photo quality
They all should, they're relatively recent phones and at least one of them I've sent MMS images to and the other one is on the same carrier as me.
Maybe group chats is just something carriers in Germany don't support. Nobody in their right mind here sends MMS anyway, it still costs 36 cents or so to send one, for me at least. Pretty much a straight up scam.
I’m in a couple. They’re not behaving as you’ve described, but I’m in an iPhone 11, so there’s that.
Text messages drop quality of images and videos are terrible. Can't do anything over 10 seconds.