Re: Samsung no longer shipping with Samsung Messages in the USA

Bob Henson wrote on Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:08:42 +0100 :

If it's over your own wifi.  If it's over mobile data no doubt it eats
into your data allowance, small messages will hardly be noticeable, huge
attachments may be ... so depends on your contract, but no per-message
charge.
 

 
I might well return to Google Messages then to save the extra app space.
I understand messages it also handles spam now so it should do fine.
Having been caught out by accidentally sent MMS charges before I was
keen to avoid repetition. Thanks for the gen.

In addition, when switching apps, just so that people are aware...

In the past, on this newsgroup, I tested & listed every free SMS/MMS app.
In doing so, I had to switch from one default messaging app to another.

Most people don't seem to realize they can change the default messaging app
at will, and they will NOT lose any messages by doing so.

The only thing you might lose is if you add stuff to the messaging app.
For exmaple, PulseSMS allows you to give group names & group colors.

When you switch from PulseSMS to something else as the default messaging
app, those group names and group colors may be lost since they're not kept
in the Android default messaging sqlite database.

But the SMS/MMS messages and MMS media is maintained in that sqlite db.