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Silly question for those comming from a iPhone. Do you miss imessage or was it not that big of a deal? (bookwormstory.social)
submitted 11 months ago by Deemo@bookwormstory.social to c/askandroid@lemdro.id
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Just kinda curious do you guys ever run into issues of lacking imessage (like your friends unwilling to use another app) or is it just a over blown issue.

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[–] Jarmer@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For a lot of users it’s also about the image quality. A lot of group chats are used to share family photos, or friends parties, or vacations, etc… and inside an iMessage the photos all look great. High quality, shareable etc. Videos looks great and stream just fine. But once any member adds any non iPhone user the group chat gets changed to green and now all the sudden all the photos are grainy extreme low quality, basically not even viewable and videos won’t even share at all. So then people get pissed at the green person and just start a new chat without that person. It sucks.

[–] Deemo@bookwormstory.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually have a mac mini running as a imessage relay and using (https://bluebubbles.app/) to relay them to my android (been using it the moment I switched from ios to android). It works quite well.

The anoying catch is you have to use imessage via email. The biggest draw is imessage on iphone will show two duplicate chats one for sms and one for email.

I'm sorta working on decomissioning that relay and either switching to the closest 3rdparty app or moving people to sms. I don't have many imessage group chats (I basically have none right now). Hence why I made this post (to test the waters)

As for image quality a partial solution is if I need to use sms I can either use google photos or samsung link share (though this only preservers the quality of images/videos I send and doesn't fix poor quality photos comming back to me).

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

If you're going to use a 3rd party app to share photos, why not just use WhatsApp (or Telegram or whatever) in the first place?