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 dont use SMS much but there are services and people that still rely on it, QUIK is great.
I love the delayed sending feature (initially in QKSMS), many times I have hit send and then gone “wait… typo”, and edited it.
Has a great inbuilt backup & restore feature too.
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.
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.
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.
theres not a way for me to possibly convince every person i know to use signal or xmpp or any other form of messaging
So you want them to install a potentially dodgy app like Signal or WhatsApp to send the odd message?
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.
It no longer requires a phone number.
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.
Agreed. I did just write “a little dodgy”. :-)
Source?
Copy/paste a sentence, then search - and you have the source.
You quote, and don’t provide source. Your post is incomplete.
Sorry. I thought I dealt with mature people in here, that knew how to use a search engine of their choice. I can see that I was wrong. BTW your comment is irrelevant…