i have been on GrapheneOS for around a year now but the default one feels lacking of features like searching for texts etc. so what other sms apos out there that are foss and feature-full.
I don’t use SMS. But if I had to, I’d use QUIK. It’s a fork of QKSMS, it supports encryption between QUIK users, the dev is great and it deserves more attention.
I’ve heard good things about the Fossify SMS app. Might want to give it a try.
I can’t speak to it because I don’t use SMS a whole lot.
Fossify Sms is cool but NGL I have no idea where my archived texts have gone and at this point I am afraid to ask 😂 I am not a guy who fails to explore UI elements either! Whisked away into the void
Is there an option to show archived conversations when you tap the three dots next to the search bar?
Yea but nothing showed up :0
I’ve used Fossify SMS and its predcessor for the past few years and I’m very satisfied with it. Everything works as expected and it’s easy to export and import your entire SMS database when moving phones. Thing that keeps me on it is that it lets me block texts by pattern, including entire area codes (looking at the 410 spam texts that plague AT&T).
You shouldn’t be using SMS enough to care what the default app is like.
The only thing that you should be using SMS for in this day and age is to get two factor authentication codes from the institutions who are still too stupid to use TOTP
And maybe updates from your pharmacy or grocery order.
theres not a way for me to possibly convince every person i know to use signal or xmpp or any other form of messaging
Lots of ppl only have SMS as a means of messaging. It’s not ideal, but neither is WhatsApp, and I still need that pos app to contact certain ppl.
In any case, this is a terrible response to OP’s question.
So you want them to install a potentially dodgy app like Signal or WhatsApp to send the odd message?
Of course not. I want them to offer authenticator based TOTP so that you can use a password manager or the likes to manage the OTP codes.
Signal isn’t dodgy like WhatsApp is. It’s just not perfectly anonymous.
It’s a little dodgy. ;-)
The biggest issue with Signal is that it requires a phone number to register an account, even if you’re just using the desktop version. Asking Signal to hand over the data it holds on you shows that the phone number you’re using is associated with each device you’ve used to log into Signal.
As a result, Signal must hand this information over when requested to by U.S. law enforcement. The scope of what an investigator could learn is limited, but at the bare minimum they would be able to confirm when you last connected to the service.
While most of Google’s analytics are turned off in the Signal app, it still uses the Google Maps API to handle location data. Calls to Google Maps turn over a bunch of metadata, including the IP you’re connecting from. For a project that’s so invested in privacy, it’s surprising that Signal doesn’t use an open source alternative such as Open Street Map.
Source?
Copy/paste a sentence, then search - and you have the source.
You quote, and don’t provide source. Your post is incomplete.
Yea, but that’s infinitely better than WhatsApp where every piece of data is owned by Facebook and sold to every marketing firm in the world and freely handed over to cops.
Right, but how many people are willing to use Signal? I have my own messaging server, and those who don’t want to use it write sms to me.
