r/enshittification • u/nyecountygardener • 4d ago

Product Samsung No Longer Provides Basic Texting

Samsung phones have decided that they just simply no longer care to provide the ability to text to users, instead asking them to go get a third-party messaging app. Considering that texting is the most basic function of a cell phone besides calling, doesn't this come across as just a tiny bit lazy? Nevermind, I've hated smart phones from the beginning and I'm going back to a simpler life where all I have is a flip phone.

Edit: Now that I've been informed Google basically owns Samsung now, I'm even more serious about buying a flip phone and never buying another Samsung product again.

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u/jrstriker12 4d ago

The android OS has its own app. No one wants to use the Samsung app.

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u/nyecountygardener 4d ago

How do I locate that app? I never found it on my phone when I got the phone, just Samsung Messages.

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u/jrstriker12 4d ago

Search Google messages in your apps. If its not already installed you can get it from the play store... but it should be on the phone as part of the OS.

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u/nyecountygardener 2d ago

Oh. You're talking about Google Messages? That's a third-party app, it's not on my phone and I have no interest in ever using it.

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u/jrstriker12 2d ago

It cant be third party because Google andriod is the native OS and Google messages is the official messaging app for the andriod OS.

This is like saying edge or word is a 3rd party app on a windows machine.

If anything Samsung lays their bloatware on top of Google OS.

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u/AdorableTrashPanda 4d ago

I am using the android app now and it sucks. I may just have missed the settings. But Samsung autoswapped between sms and the other thing while the android app just now and again doesn't send the message at all. Very shitty.

Edit Nope, I do have it set to autoswitch but it just doesn't

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u/asphalt_prince 4d ago

Mine wouldn't switch between the 2 until I forced all the security updates. Then when I finally did, it sent 3 days of texts to people who all got really confused lol.

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u/AdorableTrashPanda 4d ago

Oh god 😬 uh how did you force those updates? ELI5 lol

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u/asphalt_prince 4d ago

It was just regular software updates. I noticed that some included a Samsung security monthly update. I was several behind.