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Don't forget that Google Hangouts now has access to all your texts, too, now.
by JohnTHaller 13y ago
Don't forget that Google Hangouts now has access to all your texts, too, now.
- victorhooi 13y agoErr, yes, but on any modern version of Android, Google Hangouts is the SMS app - so I thing that's a bit of a red herring, and completely unrelated.
- auxbuss 13y agoI'm not sure why you consider that a red herring. You can disable Hangouts and Android will fall back to the standard Messaging app.
- desas 13y agoThe standard messaging app isn't installed by default on modern android phones (nexus 5). You can of course install 3rd party messaging apps.
- auxbuss 13y agoWell, admittedly my phone isn't bleeding-edge, being a nexus 4, but it runs the latest version of Android and removal of Hangouts does make Messaging the SMS app.
- yread 13y ago> Google Hangouts is the SMS app What do you mean by that? It asked me if I want it to handle my sms, I said no. It asked me again when I updated to 4.4, I said no again. I can (and will) keep saying no...
- kissickas 13y agoI would love this feature if they actually incorporated my SMS history into Hangouts, but unfortunately I can't move or sync messages across phones or view them on my computer. I suppose they reason that it would be too confusing to the people who would then try to SMS from their computer, as iPhone+Mac users are able to do so... but isn't segmenting my Hangouts history just as confusing?
- JohnTHaller 13y agoOnly on the latest Android if you buy it that way on very specific phones. For everyone else (read: MOST Android users) an upgrade happened, often from Google Talk, and wound up with a new app with full SMS control without the user knowing.
- kelnos 13y ago... which is written by Google. The same people who wrote the stock messaging app... and phone's OS. If they want your texts, getting them through the Hangouts app is hardly necessary.