Hello,
I hope you can help me. I have recently purchased a Moto E2 for my other half. It's all good, but the default built-in messaging app is missing two features that she considers essential:
- the ability to create and store text templates for SMS messages (i.e. save the text of messages that she regularly sends, to save her having to type it out every single time)
- emoji support - all the emojis on her phone are staying as text (e.g. etc) and any that she sends are not being received at my end.
Is there a fix for this? Or does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement SMS app that can do this?
Textra seems to be popular, but I have heard that it does not offer text templates. Chomp apparently offers text templates, but might be a bit heavy. Does Google Messages offer these features?
Many thanks,
Humphrey.
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There are a few downsides:
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Try using Hangouts as your default SMS. When you said "but a lot of my contacts use iPhones - So that's not an option" sounds like you didn't enable SMS as default in Hangouts. I don't know why your phone would care that you're texting an iPhone if you're just sending SMS.
How to use hangouts for messages: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6013419?hl=en
But if you don't like hangouts, you can still use the old messenger app: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6013419?hl=en
Thanks...
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Any thoughts?
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