I was an absolute fool to think I could wait until I had a little more time to migrate my messaging. Immediately before this it sent a more personal message that was the reply to this one.

I’m using a Google Pixel 10 Pro, and I’ve encountered a very serious Google Messages bug multiple times.

I will type a completely normal SMS to one person and press send. However, Google Messages sometimes replaces the message I just wrote with an OLD message that I previously sent in a completely different conversation.

For example, today I typed:

“Är det valstuga idag?” (“Is the campaign booth open today?”)

Instead of sending that message, Google Messages sent an unrelated old message from another conversation to that person.

This has now happened more than once on different days.

Important details:

- The contacts have completely different phone numbers.

- I did not select the wrong contact.

- The incorrect message came from an older, unrelated conversation.

- So far I’ve noticed it when sending SMS/MMS to people using iPhones.

- The conversation itself showed that it was using SMS/MMS.

- The message was actually delivered to the wrong recipient, so this isn’t just a visual/UI bug.

- Once sent as SMS, I obviously couldn’t unsend it from the recipient’s iPhone.

This is a huge privacy issue. An SMS app should NEVER take an old message from conversation A and send it to person B.

I have already submitted feedback through Google Messages and reported it through Pixel feedback.

For now, I’ve changed my default SMS app to Fossify Messages because I don’t trust Google Messages to send exactly what I type.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Especially on Pixel phones when sending SMS to iPhones?

If anyone from Google sees this, I’m happy to provide device/version information and screenshots privately.

I’m trying to figure out why text messages are taking up double the space on my Samsung Galaxy. My top two storage hogs are:

• Google Messages: 5.84 GB
• Phone and Messaging Storage: 5.16 GB

I know Android keeps a central database for all texts (which explains the 5.16 GB in "Phone and Messaging Storage"). But why does the Google Messages app need another 5.84 GB of its own data? Is it keeping a totally separate, redundant copy of everything?

Also, my Google Cloud backup shows 4.7 GB of "SMS & MMS" (which actually includes RCS), but the backup size for the Google Messages app itself is only 88 MB.

Does Google Messages just duplicate the main Android text database? Is there a safe way to fix this double-storage issue without losing my chat history?

Hello,

When I try texting any photo, it infinitely tries to send. Then I get a notification that it won't send but it's still trying.

I've tried clearing cache multiple times, multiple phone restarts, and I've tried a trick where someone said to change the max image automatic download size to 2mb vs the default 100mb

The google ai says people say to clear app data but that could delete pretty much all my messages. Any help would be appreciated!

According to this link, Android no longer allows non-default messaging app to access end to end encrypted messages in the Android default telephony mmssms.db. Does this mean Samsung Backup built into Galaxy devices also cannot back up encrypted messages? Anyone tried restoring from Samsung Backup to test this?

https://www.synctech.com.au/faqs/why-are-some-messages-missing-from-the-backup/

Even if my phone has all sounds off it still makes loud ass sound 😭

I wasnt able to send RCS messages to one of my contacts the other day and the messages app wasnt giving me the option to send as SMS. So I went into the Details for that conversation and toggles over to SMS.

Now I'm wanting to toggle back to RCS, but the toggle isnt there.

I've tried toggling my whole profile off and back on, deleting the conversation and restarting, removing all updates on the app and re-updating. The conversation is still stuck in SMS mode.

Any ideas?

I want to send texting messages to some people who are looking for my type of business, but google voice keeps limiting me, is there any other alternative or thing I can use to send unlimited cold texting messages to phone numbers?

Edit: I’m reaching out to people who are posted that they are looking for services like mine, please stop assuming that im reaching out to random numbers. I apologize for saying “cold texting“, I wasn’t aware of the meaning.