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Any Non-Google replacements for Google Chat?
I really hate having to switch my text app to Google Chat or whatever it's called. Is there an app that doesn't use Google accounts that I can use for texting instead?
I really hate having to switch my text app to Google Chat or whatever it's called. Is there an app that doesn't use Google accounts that I can use for texting instead?
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I just switched to Chomp this morning.
Correct, you don't need to be signed into your gmail to use the google messages app. You lose features like rcs, spam blocking, and being able to text using your laptop. But if you don't care about those just download google messaging then skip sign in.
This is good. Just can't get friends to use it.
I agree that it's not the easiest thing to do. However, for me at least, I have found that getting new contacts to use it has been much easier when you suggest it instead of immediately handing over my phone number. For friends or existing contacts, I just start randomly sending them the download link until they install it.
So have I, but it doesn't do RCS. That's been causing a lot of problems texting with my iPhone users 🙁.
Many of my friends have iPhones and we've never had any trouble. I remember reading someone else saying this before. I don't use anything that uses that - I guess that's the difference. I have everything like where you can see when they read your text etc turned off
Same!
"Google Chat " is a messaging service by Google, competing with Slack. "Google Messages" is a sms/rcs client, using a Google account is entirely optional
Their biggest misstep was to drop being a full SMS client.
Interesting, is RCS dependent on the account? My mother doesn't use a Google account on her phone at all. She's not signed into anything anywhere and she has RCS. But she also has a phone that's a few years old, and apps can't be updates without an account, so her Google Messages app is really out of date. Maybe what you say was added in a later version.
I don't think you need to log in with a Google account to use Google messages. That said, if you want to use RCS (IE have decent texting with iPhone users and non compressed media) you don't have any choice
Highly recommend switching to Signal
If you use / depend on RCS, you don't have any choice. If you only need normal carrier SMS / MMS, you have a lot of choices.
I've used Textra for years.