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Dobly

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I'm my S6 I have the SMS app, and I have Messenger. Either can send sms. No problem there.

The problem is this, before either of them will send an SMS, they have to be set to the 'Default app'.

Why? How about the apps just do their job. If write an sms, send it.

I have friend that SMS me and others that get my on Messenger. I am forever setting the default app to one or the other.

Imagine if on a Windows pc if could not write text to the Word file unless you make the DEFAULT text app. Then you open Notepad and it wants to be DEFAULT. Imagine GIMP not working because Photoshop is the default.

I can't believe this stupidity still exists in the world of Android. If I open either app, just do what is on the box without this default nonsense.
 
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Dobly said:
I'm my S6 I have the SMS app, and I have Messenger. Either can send sms. No problem there.

The problem is this, before either of them will send an SMS, they have to be set to the 'Default app'.

Why? How about the apps just do their job. If write an sms, send it.
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It usually does doesn't it? What device have you actually got there, make, model, Android version. Could be something that the manufacturer has done?



Dobly said:
I have friend that SMS me and others that get my on Messenger. I am forever setting the default app to one or the other.

Imagine if on a Windows pc if could not write text to the Word file unless you make the DEFAULT text app. Then you open Notepad and it wants to be DEFAULT. Imagine GIMP not working because Photoshop is the default.

I can't believe this stupidity still exists in the world of Android. If I open either app, just do what is on the box without this default nonsense.
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ie_default_browser.png

....uncheck the default box, and then find IE is still the default browser.

Although I don't use Windows myself much these days.
 
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Just set an app to be your default SMS app and use that. I use Messenger just for Facebook messages, and my SMS app of choice for SMS. This means that I never get those messages. I could choose to make Messenger my SMS app, but chose not to and just turned SMS off in Messenger's settings, and have never been asked since.

The "default app" business was introduced a couple of years ago. I can no longer remember the reason, though a quick search would doubtless bring up the official story (I say "official" because if part of the reason was that some users were getting multiple notifications when they had multiple sms-capable apps and were too dumb to turn them off they'd be unlikely to say that publicly). It was probably a security thing.
 
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It's specifically an SMS thing, since about Android 5 or so. It's different from the usual assigning a default app to handle a particular intent. If you've not installed a second SMS app (or opened a different SMS app from your regular one) you won't see the message.

The other time you see this is if you want to restore SMS from a backup. The backup app will need to be temporarily assigned as default app so that it can write to the message database.
 
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