cross-posted from !meta@lemdro.id
As early as September 28, 2023, SMS messages will no longer be available when you update your Messenger app.
Was anybody actually using this? I honestly forgot this was a supported feature. This is coming from someone who is still not happy about Signal dropping SMS support.
I think everybody knows that, Signal even warned you about it. Signal removing SMS doesn’t make SMS disappear, though.
In my social circles everyone uses WhatsApp, some people use Telegram, one or two use Signal. Getting people to install Signal as a better SMS app was a great trojan horse to spread safe messenging to less techy people.
I know Signal struggled with the lack of an RCS API but it’s still unfortunate that SMS got removed from it.