Messages - SMS Messaging, Call

nice

I prefer a different app for this

Why must there be so many Ads? Not only are the ads incessant, they are extremely intrusive. The ads were written deliberately to hijack your screen and you have to sit there for 30 seconds to almost a minute before it clears so you can get back to what you were doing. I'm fed up.

not being able to use my regular buttons at the bottom of my screen because all it wants to do is open up these stupid ads when all I'm trying to do is get out of my text messaging, BS!

good

two may adds

This app is very Aggravating and it sucks!

Thanks , Let see your Performance First before Rating

I went to delete old messages in 3 days nothing happened all still there

constantly with the ads and changes setting without permissions

you suck i can't receive pictures and way too many ads

Best SMS app there is.

do not want. to share my files with anyone if they include pictures in same house

it's ok

good msg app

exlent

I always use this.

SUCKS! I LIKED THE OTHER MESSAGES, BUT TOLD I CANNOT USE IT ANYMORE

this app has blocked me from text messages out going and incoming unless it's an unwanted messaging from ads and scammers. I can't fend how to unblock this app and I'm getting annoyed with it.

ls good

too many ad pop ups dont have options to retrieve trash messages needs alot more work done

to many ads wish I could turn it off can't get pictures from people

Very good

it doesn't allow you to just tap to like a message which is all I want to do sometimes.Its gets hard to read messages that you send when replying my message turns almost invisible. Very annoying.The ads are beyond annoying as well.To the point where I want to throw my phone into the garbage.Also sometimes when I copy and paste a message it posts with ads in the chat. I'm hesitant to update this app less it just gets more annoying.I hesitate to load the updates less I end up with more annoying ad

ads are scams

seen nothing unusual

good

mutiple messages are on my phone

terrible app to many ads and u can't retrieve erased messages

it's OK but getting mess that are a nuisance. about my storage. wanting money.

TOO many ads. Need to find a messaging app that doesn't have adds & will let me view "blocked messages" like I could on other phones. App is too busy with too many different colors. It would be nice for everything to be black & white. It's also not giving me a lot of my text messages from people. My friend wanted to know why I hadn't replied to his texts. I told him that I didn't get any & he showed me on his phone where he sent it & at what time. Can't receive puctures. DO BETTER!

too many ads.. not receiving pictures or sending

best app

This is malware. It sent me a ton of scareware messages saying my phone was full of viruses and my photos were going to be deleted if I didn't click it. Yes I know it probably doesn't choose the ads it displays but this wasn't an ad in app. It sent these as system notifications.

good

I am not getting any txt messages. I mave missed a number important messages because of this.

takes forever to delete messages one at a time hate that.

need a contacts list for messenger. not as useful as at&t messenger.

good

at present I'm just getting to know the app

It changed so much on my phone that it's just aggravating.

not user friendly

don't want ads on my messages, or any suggestions... just messages, and I don't like messages popping up when receiving phone calls... I can't hardly tell who's calling anymore because of Google messages bs.

Poor, there is an old saying, " if it ain't f..ked don't fix it" . The app was fine as it was 5yrs ago. Basically all apps have become too hard to navigate due to too much/many options & setting up to suit what I want is too complex or impossible to do. I'm about ready to go NO MOBILE ST ALL, it's just to stressfull.

excellent

great message app

Do better on the messages. Give me great navigation to all of my facilities. All my destination truckers route only

didn't like the ads.

I don't need to be told that I have to use your virus apps. I have one on my phone that works fine. I don't like the ads popping up. the only reason I switched is because I was told that Samsung would be gone soon and now I am wondering if that was true or not. Right now I will use the app till I find one that doesn't tell me what to do. I used to like Google but not sure now. I have spent 3 wasted hours trying to get everything to work correct but..... still disappointed.

I don't like how this app took over my phone, I was not allowed to respond to a text for 45 minutes, this app forces you to agree with all their demands

Too many ads at the bottom of the screen! Can't delete just one message from conversations!!!

so far better then goggle

Terrible app. Has adds on the screen while using it.

Great

nope, not dealing with ads for just an app to send texts.

never finished uploading after install. usless

working very well so far🙂

too many ads popping up.

no good

Its not giving me my messages.

They added the bottom is for messenger, but i'm using messenger as my app doesn't make any sense

hate the pop up ads

get the damn advertisement off the bottom of my screen! it is interfering with my choices!

ads won't go away this app aggravating.

way too busy with icons and color. no instructions to prioritize family or friends . everything gets lost in the shuffle. uninstalled.

it sucks

can't retrieve deleted messages. Horrible

terrible. this app displays ads. it showed a pornographic ad without verifying age or asking permission.

I'm not going to have my screen flooded with ads, that's a bunch of garbage!

I don't want to change but am being forced to do so.

piss poor.

Downloaded the app in anticipation of Samsung Message going away and immediately got hit with a Norton ad trying to scan my phone. So... this app is a no for me. I'm so annoyed by Samsung bailing on a great texting app.

keeps showing i have unread messages when I don't. Adverts constantly making if difficult to navigate away.

effective and easy

practically everything you do with this app produces an advertisement. Some/many are incredibly obnoxious. I don't mind some ads, but when they give you no other way to close/proceed than to close the app, it doesn't encourage me to "upgrade" to a "pro" version, it makes me uninstall the app! This isn't the only texting app and I don't want it telling me it needs access to everything on my phone! GOOD BYE.

av only installed the app for 20mins and already got 2 spam notifications from the app. uninstalling straight away.

this app is horrible!!! I loved it on my Galaxy 20FE buuuut wit this Galaxy 26 it sucks!!! Ads at the bottom that I can't get rid of nd I can't find my deleted texts messages 🤬

wonderful

lousy and noisy adds

piss poor. at best. when I receive a phone call, and it's a pop-up, I'm only given 4 options. not one of those options are either, decline or answer. I am left with no 🙂‍↔️ anything to work with and the time is running in the background. this is Very Frustrating. to say the least. when I try to use Google help... I find that often, suggestions remotely close to my questions. not a single one!!!! I would just like to know why this is.

ads...ugh. and a phone call came and the app locked up. Galaxy S25. Still looking.

too many annoying ads

Absolutely terrible. Why is there an advertisement bar at the bottom such that I have to go into a text message as if I'm going to text so that I can swipe up and out of the app?

I don't want to use the app for phone calls. I have "write over other apps" turned on, yet the app keeps telling me to turn it on. It only stops if I give it phone permission. if this gets fixed, I'll change my rating to 3 *

Cannot deal with advertising!

this app is VERY annoying and I don't like it at all! Can't just send or receive a text. Always have to watch ads before you can do anything. It freezes my phone and I have to restart my phone! I would rate it with negative stars if it were possible. Stop "fixing" things that aren't broken!!!

Poor. difficult to use. No trash folder. Some texts never show up. Old Samsung app was much better and more reliable.

will not download

the message "size" (far too many per page) is too small. there is no help, support or contact us links to even ask

ads are a no no

spammed with ads. what happened to the old messages app?

worst app I've ever seen

how do you make a group thread?

Too much advertisement.

nice app

not user friendly

too many ads...ultra 26

The stupid ads block my navigation buttons.

ads

Comodo.

I can't get out of a message without clicking the close all for messages as an ad for Temu covers the back button at the bottom of the screen.

take the ads off the bottom. this upgrade sucks in that regard. the previous Samsung phone text app didn't have ads at the bottom distracting you.

is there a way to pay for this app to stop the continuous advertisements? also..... I'd like to be able to customize what I want to see and not want to see as far as actions and options.

New phone What an effort to get out of the SMSmessage app with the bottom line pop-up advertisement that freezes your phone so you have to close all apps to get to a workable screen. I've switched my browser from Google. that didn't work. I Uninstalled play store. that didn't work.

Not really a fan. The layout is different, I hate the ad at the bottom and I can't find the deleted messages.

intrusive ads thst pevents the app from working. Csnt even type a message.

The ads that come with this are annoying. they keep trying to get me to download another version of this darn app.

Pop-up TikTok ads are annoying. If I wanted TikTok I would have selected to download it. ASKING ME OVER AND OVER AND OVER ISN'T GOING TOMAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND! DAMN! Didn't an add free version use to come automatically with Samsung cell phones and other androids?

I just upgraded my Galaxy and I absolutely HATE this app now, everything about it. I'm removing it. I could probably get used to the changes but the ads? Hell no.

I lost a lot of of my contacts and I lost my work schedule that was posted every week and some of the text I had was from people who are not here with us anymore like I said I did everything that I could think of nothing worked like i was told to do so I am not to happy with the text apps till I can get the one I already had a I really like that one a lot more than the other ones I have ever had before till then I won't be to happy with the newest versions at all that's my review

I have been fighting google messages for several months and when trying to fix a problem of course I could not talk to a person. AI hung up on me - I hope Samsung continues messages. Now that I have had Samsung messaging for awhile there are times I am disgusted with it. I need to take someone off a group message and can not find any way to do that. I decided to just make a new group but can't find how to do that. Maybe it is there and I am just not seeing it but it shouldn't be thos hard.

Ads are ridiculous and you can't shut it off. Hate this update.

Ads are in the way of utilizing the app. Can't shut them off, can't move them. Looking for app without the ads like one previously on my phone.

I dislike the ads that keep popping up at bottom of screen 😒 . Also, the app shows I have unread texts even though I have viewed and read them all. This is frustrating.

The ads are intrusive, numerous and there is no way to turn them off without affecting some of the core functionality.

Pro version app is attempting to forward messages to group chats that I did not set a filter for. Luckily, the message does not go through as my android messaging app states the forward attempt is not formatted correctly. I purchased the pro version and I need to know how to get a refund.

Horrible, full of annoying ads with noisy alerts with no way to silence unless you silence your e-mails. It does not provide MMS capabilities and SMS is limited, so in my opinion it is useless. I will just stick with Google e-mail that came on the phone and is far superior.

the worst. images every 2 seconds are seriously making me want to return this new phone and get an iPhone. SINCE WHEN DO I NEED TO SEE AND AD WHEN I SEND A TEXT MESSAGE?! i hate this "upgrade "

This app sucks!!! I downloaded it, and I'm getting ads after everything I do. Plus, it won't allow me to reply to any of my contacts who have messaged me.

I was hoping to have the same text messaging service I had on my previous phone, but it looks like you've gone astray also. Just like everything else... it's all about money & advertisements. There's nothing I hate worse than having ads shoved in my face! Just because of that, I will NOT give my money to them. The service you 'supposedly' provide is obviously secondary to your profits. Sad!

I originally gave a very good rating. 4 stars actually, that I thought was a very good rating for the application at the time. Now my rating is going to change, because there's an ad at the bottom of the page that is impossible to move or scroll without opening up the actual ad. I DO NOT NEED TO SEE AN AD FOR A TEXT MESSAGING PROGRAM!!

no one can help me with this issue not even t mobile. I thought if I used your app it would fix the issue but no"free msg: Unable to send message " stupid thing is it only happening with certain contacts like my kid.

This app won't play audio texts that were transferred into it. Won't pin people to the top. Won't search in a single conversation. Now it says storage full!! Plus the banner ad banner at the bottom that you have to be careful not to touch or it'll install something you don't want! I was hoping it would work like the original in my old Galaxy A52. It was EXCELLENT. This loaded version 3.4 and it is worse than ever!

Complete waste of time. App runs slow and pops adds up constantly while trying to use making you constantly have to exit out. Junk and wouldn't recommend

I thought I was getting a messaging app with no ads; but alas! Since I don't like seeing ads(especially perverted ones),I guess I'll be sticking with Google messages.

can I remove adds .. before I got this phone had no adds and could select 20 people I could have at the top of my friends list and get notifications of sent recieved etc cant fing anyshere to do this on the app

I'm trying this app because the one that came with my Galaxy s25 is a horrible layout, now I'm having issues when I try to go hit the backspace normally at the lower area, there's an advertisement that keeps popping up that I can't get rid of and it just wasting time when I hit it accidentally instead of the backspace at the top of the screen I'm thinking I might not use this also

Thought that I was replacing the free app, but as usual the charges started to appear and eventually CHPT or something like that was $$20 a month. Yes €20 a month! wHY OH WHY CAN INTERNET APP'S NOT BE UP FRONT & HONEST ABOUT CHARGES? NEEDLESS TO SAY I CHOSE ANOTHER APP BECAUSE OF YOUR SALES TACTICS BEING LESS THAN UP FRONT WITH ME DIRECTLY & PERSONALLY. I HATE THIS TYPE OF BUSINESS ITS ALMOST LIKE STEALING AS I DONT KNOW ALL THE COSTS UP FRONT. BE HONEST & GET MORE CUSTOMERS J Ron.

since when are there ads all over the screen constantly getting in the way? And it never stops asking for me to rate the app.

I am still getting use to this program. I am use to my old messenger. My old messenger had absolutely NO ads. I don't like ads especially when I am trying to get something done and suddenly there is an ad that pops up and you can't get rid of it.

Replacing google messages as it's not doing what I require. prefer Samsung messages. On reflection the Samsung app is slightly better but it's very similar to google messages.

It works but is more confusing than other apps. blank pages, no way to easily exit the program. annoying ads.

just got a new phone and I'm already disappointed that the message app that had zero ads now has frequent ads unless I pay extra. this practice of adding ads is legit anger inducing and I will be going any other route now, all these 5 star ratings are either bots or really unintelligent people. this is legit just sad that the developers are just that shameless

Very glitchy app. you have to sit through ads that interrupt texting. I have had to shut the phone down and reboot it because half the time the apps won't go through until I reboot the phone. it won't send more than one picture at a time and most of the time, won't deliver texts to me with attachments. really not worth having.

WHY do I have to see these really irritating tic tok ads 😤 I have used this app for years and never had to put up with ugly ads. Recently got a new phone and it looks like I have to delete this one...

Like another user, I got another phone. Went from a Samsung 22 Ultra to a Samsung 25 Ultra. The app was great prior to the upgrade. Now there are sooo many ads all over the place, it's ridiculous. The print is smaller, even with increasing the size. The overall visual appearance is a downgrade instead of an upgrade. The text box constantly has a 1 in it, but when pressed, nothing happens. Was able to hit the contacts button to use favorite contacts, but that's gone. By far the worse upgrade.

This message app and all the other iterations of it marked with 2025, are infected with a TicTok advertisement that covers the android navigation controls at the bottom of the phone screen making it impossible to navigate out. The TikTok ad cannot me moved or removed from any of the iterations of this app.

I like this way better than Google Messages. I like that there is a way to pin special conversations at the top, and I like the fact that the conversations are organized with bold letters for the sender

Abysmal. ADS ON A TEXT MESSAGE??? texting is 1 of the basic 3 functions of a phone how can you mess it up this badly? Bring back old app. I was so confused when I opened this app - thanks to other reviewers for making me realise I wasn't being insane! Don't download, don't use, complete joke. If I could do negative stars I would.

While I love the layout, look, and smoothness of the Samsung messaging app, the only thing I don't like is I still can't send high-res videos over text or more than a couple pictures at a time. Some of the other messaging apps have already figured this out, which is making me want to switch, but I still like the layout of this one better than the others.

This WAS Once A Great App... I just got a newer phone. This was My Go to App. I use to be able to add a voice message within the App. I no longer can do that! I use to be able to send a group text with ease, No Longer Can Do That! I Have to Exit the App each time I send A Message? WHY WOULD YOU SCREW UP A GOOD THING... There was Nothing Wrong with the Prior App!!! MOST OF ALL... THE ADS😡 Posted at the Bottom of the Screen Where the Most Used Functio is😤 I am Searching For Another App!

Ads in my SMS app are just annoying. This app, based on the icon, was pre-installed on my last phone; trying to find the exact same SMS app has proven difficult.

was a great app then they added advertisements and you can't exit a conversation without an ad popping up. You ruined a good thing.

could be improved by allowing you to select multiple contacts rather than adding one at a time especially when your sending a bulk sms

Used to be a great app. Now they have allowed an ad banner at the bottom that is very distracting and unnecessary!

if I could give this app a negative star I would, it does not deserve a one star. problem is, I had to get a new phone, the other phone messaging was great 10 out of 10. this new phone I had to add this app, fine, now it has a stupid add right where the conversation and contact icons are and you can not remove it and can not move it to access the icons, thanks for screwing up a great product for revenue ads. I will be seeking a new messaging service. good luck people.

as soon as I downloaded, I Uninstall it. it HAS ADS 😡🤬, just got the z flip 7 and I don't like using the google text, and I cannot find the messages app that I had in my Galaxy S23 ultra

I just don't like it period. I was comfortable with the 1 you took away. it pisses me off that there is an add at the bottom. I don't like that I have to click on the top right side to delete something. I so loved my old 1 that you took away!

not happy that the developers identity isn't really shown. should be one of the first things listed. had to dig through a few pages of info to find anything. also the developers web site is not maintained. Not a good sign and the last update was some time ago i believe.

This app's description does not say "contains ads" but I've already seen two ads and the setup isn't even complete.

This app keeps showing that I have a new message. but nothing new when I open up the app. extremely irritating!

it's nice bt they must improve more, especially on ads ,like me I don't must apps with ads

first off I didn't download this. and I can't find the original text message app that the phone came with. it doesnt allow me to send emoji cons or share pics thru text like I had done before this snuck into my phone.

What in the WORLD is this app doing with my messages? For one conversation I can only see the last message received and no history. For another I can only see what I sent and not my friend's replies. And there's some other goofy view of messages I recently sent to different people but they're all listed together. Not just confusing but BAFFLING. Texting has been around for DECADES ... how can you get this so wrong?!?!

So far so good but I think no one can do without delivery reports, and never got any yet . I ' m that long using the app and still guaging whether it is more convenient than other apps including the system's sms app that keeps crashing. Would highly appreciate it if this one would provide delivery reports and be worthy of the 5 stars.

got a new phone, had this app on the old phone advertising free, I absolutely do not like the ads at the bottom!

Has ads which I don't see a label for - I selected it for no ads. doesn't access my contacts. tried to take me to a website for registration rather than just working like other messaging apps have for me. could not access settings. deleted within 1 minute.

Unfortunately this is the only app that my friends text on. This app puts an add on every notification and it blocks my sound on my hearing aide while watching TV. Very annoying. I checked but found no way to block ads which I definitely would have paid to do.

it is nice to see a thorough listing of Apps in categories, to install on my phone. However, the descriptions are usually horrible. Instead of saying what apps really do or look like, descriptions are filled with promotional hard-sell statistics of no interest to potential users. Worse, many apps perform like beta releases, while their promotion treats them as if well tested. The screen reader prevented me using any other function of my phone or removing it. Ug !

from what I know, the only thing this app does correctly is marketing itself as a legitimate sms app. however, I don't know how good it does at anything else because it is so laggy to do anything and also none of my contacts or group chats are showing up so I don't know what I'm supposed to do with the app cause I can't send any messages

all I see is ads, ad for tick tick, ad for some other dumbness.... all ads, maybe it's the phone maybe not, either way, oher apps = no ads.... just sayin

Very unhappy with this app. I can't delete my choice of message, it deletes EVERY message for the person I'm currently viewing. Unfortunately I'm not finding the Message App I used on my last Galaxy A14. Sorry, I upgraded to this A16, all for a bargain provider price. Not worth the aggravation!! Hey Samsung..put better Msg apps on your Android phones!

I give ZERO STARS! Who wants to use an app that when your texting it shows ads

I only used this app for not more thn an hour but I'm already seeing ads that i really hates the most and the other more thing this colour in the text messages seems not original

works with my default phone app. the app itself seems ok without using it because there were ads across the bottom. no ads would probably be a much higher star rating. this rating is in fairness to the other apps that honestly stated they had ads which I avoided. this app is just being deceptive.

The ads aren't a huge issue for me, but I can't send or receive pics and no custom ringtone make this app one of the last favorite I've tried.

Had it on my previous phone, it was a great app. Now has so many ads, I had to remove it, before I could even explore.

I don't receive half the messages sent to me. To make sure i even texted myself from several different numbers and 2 out of 5 different numbers came through. Definitely disappointing especially beings I'm self employed. Who knows how much work I've missed!!! Also no pictures are allowed or gifs...

I had this app on previous phones with no ads. Came already installed and worked well. Now it is full of ads! what the heck. Learning to use google messages now since free of ads.

It's a decent app, but the big problem is that it doesn't sort my messages in any logical way. I thought it was sorted by date received or time received but it's not doing any of that. There's nothing in the settings to fix this. So I'm going to look for a different messages app.

This app says you can schedule messages, I don't see it. Trying to connect to chat settings, keeps telling me there's no network connection but I clearly have one.

Does not have a keyboard that allow us for insertion of documents are pictures along with the text message period it does not receive messages with photos attached. Also has a drop band of six icons on the right?Which I do not want

The app is great, but the persistent annoying banner adds now even top and bottom after my upgrade, very irritating, but unfortunately uninstalling the app

I like the app but I can't assign a sound tone to different contacts so I can know who it is without looking at the mobile. And how can I get rid of the annoying ads at the bottom?

Hate the fact that I can't use the old version of sms. Hate having ads popping at the bottom of the screen.

New phone, and I keep getting setting options to set default. Why is the message app I used to use and smart copied to the new phone not working? And what is # messages???

Sends stupid messages at 4am about sending messages to keep in touch. Just sends unless messages that are not real. Cannot turn off notifications or you won't get the real message notifications.

Excellent App nothing to complain about. "VERY USER-FRIENDLY"! Keep up the good "Smart" coding for these Apps I am testing. Some of the Apps I test have "Ads" which is a no-no with me. If it isn't like a Application or Program on a "PC" then forget it. For the last 32 years that's what I got use too. A personal computer and some of the Apps are not "User-Friendly" or not the Same Framework ex: Copy & Paste like a "PC" or "Mac" then it will lose its Credit with the Humans that use it. Luv the App

Hate, hate the Temu ad that keeps bugging me. My original texting app disappeared and had to reinstal a new one. Total sucks. Can't add a photo to my messages anymore also.

SIMPLE YET EFFICIENT An honest app for sending/receiving texts that doesn't require hours to learn and memorize. We love it! If I made a change, it would be to enlarge the type a bit.