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Do not use Google Messages on SAMSUNG

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klimte Posted messages 497 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
baba-baston Posted messages 245 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I just bought a Samsung A56. I probably installed the messaging app incorrectly because when I go to type SMS, I find myself on GOOGLE MESSAGES. This wasn't the case on my previous phone.

Thank you for letting me know how I can switch back to a standard messaging app.

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    Diablo76 Posted messages 348 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   141
     

    Hi,

    You need to go to Settings > Applications and search for Messages to set the app you want as default. I prefer Google Messages because it allows me to send and read my SMS and MMS directly from my computer:

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  2. klimte Posted messages 497 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   85
     

    Hello,

    Thank you to each participant for paying attention to my request. (I hadn't seen that replies were directed to me).

    Indeed, there is now a form of constraint to use "Google Messages" (and no other option is spontaneously offered). I fear that if I choose another app on Google Play, I will face rejection after a while because from what I read here and there, "Google Messages" will soon be almost mandatory.

    What displeases me is the appearance... I see at the top the prompt to enter names, phone numbers, or email addresses.

    Then I see a Gemini logo. (For which I have no particular interest)

    Then I can already see the list of my Google contacts with their photos and phone numbers.

    If there were a possibility to view the screen differently, that would be nice.

    Best regards.

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  3. .eric Posted messages 1386 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   87
     

    Hello

    Google has probably made programs for Samsung or for Android as well.

    Either there is "tied selling" (you cannot use one without using the other); or one or more presets randomly favor these choices but can be modified by the user; or at some point you were logged in to Google and that allowed a direct connection to Samsung or one of its devices or programs, and now the Google account serves to log you in (but also provides the login information to Samsung).

     The head of the EU has just changed a "detail" of the GDPR: [of course after a vote in parliament] it has been legal since then, so find your old phone and delete these new contracts, throw away the new phones and social networks, do not connect anymore through the internet or anywhere you may have already signed, given your authorization to do this.

     "Instagram says white, Franceinfo says black… I feel like something has changed recently…"

    There is no age to relearn:

    https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-choix-franceinfo/un-atelier-d-education-aux-medias-pour-aider-les-seniors-a-ne-plus-se-laisser-pieger_7659418.html

     A simplification law passed by Europe and then reapplied in each country to harmonize everywhere.

    https://www.economiematin.fr/loi-simplification-qui-va-reellement-changer

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  4. Pierr10 Posted messages 13856 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   5 855
     

    Hello

    Samsung has stopped maintaining its Messages app, which is therefore not available on the Galaxy A56.

    See this.

    You have the Google Messages app left or any other that you can download from the Play Store.

    The Google app is not a bad choice. One of its advantages is being usable on a PC via the link https://messages.google.com/web/conversations

    What is well conceived is clearly expressed,
    And the words to say it come easily.
    (Boileau)

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  6. baba-baston Posted messages 245 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Personally, mine is blue and it's called Google Messages Google LLC in the Application Store

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    1. klimte Posted messages 497 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   85
       

      Hello,

      As mentioned in a previous message, I read on a site that Samsung users are now required to switch to Google Messages as Samsung Messages has been removed from the Play Store.

      This is a constraint for recent models (it still exists on older models). For my part, I have a recent model that I purchased in December.

      Best regards.

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      1. baba-baston Posted messages 245 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   > klimte Posted messages 497 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        It's a shame because I remember that before, voice dictation was much more accurate Google 5/10

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