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I've frequently looked at switching to an iphone for the longer software support, but iMessage is a consistent deal breaker. As I understand it, you can't set a

by tbihl 6y ago

I've frequently looked at switching to an iphone for the longer software support, but iMessage is a consistent deal breaker. As I understand it, you can't set a default SMS app. In my case, I can't use Signal as a secure platform that falls back to SMS for compatibility.

BugsJustFindMe 6y ago
I approach this from the other side. I always want to be completely in control over how a message gets sent because the different mechanisms all have unique failure reliability modes. If I want to send an SMS I go to the SMS app. If I want to send through Signal I go to Signal. That way I'm never surprised by my phone doing something unexpected like trying to use a flaky data stream instead of piggybacking on tower traffic or vice versa.