Samsung S23 Default Messaging App
Stetson Saenz
Newer Galaxy phones come with at least two built-in messaging options: Samsung Messages and Messages by Google. Both apps have intuitive interfaces that make it fun and easy to send texts to your contacts. Some carriers provide their own messaging app, and there are plenty of third-party options available as well. However, even if you have multiple apps downloaded, you can only have one set as your default messaging app.
Note: Maybe you like your current messages app but want to try out something different. Just switch the default app, and you will be ready to send texts, emojis, and images through the new app. In these examples we will show you how to switch to Samsung Messages.
Note: If you usually open your message app with a shortcut on your home screen, or from your favorite apps section of the home screen, you will need to replace the shortcut to the old app with a shortcut to the new one.
My messaging keeps going back-and-forth from MMS to SM. S? What can I do to make it stay as a defaultMy messaging keeps going back-and-forth from MMS to SM. S? What can I do to make it stay as a default on MM? Have. No key or nothing? To. Push to turn it to default where do I go? I've got through all my settings and still don't find it default. This is very annoying I cannot send texts every time..
If I try to go to Messages on my Watch, I get the message 'Can't retrieve messages. Change your default messaging app to Messages?' and a tick or a cross. Tapping the tick tries to change the default text app on my phone to Messages and shows the messages screen on my Watch, including all of my texts. Whereas tapping the cross takes me straight to the messages screen on my Watch with all of my texts showing, which I can read, reply to, delete etc.
Is anyone else getting this? If it works for everyone, can Samsung update the Watch OS to just let us interact with our messages, without the error message, as it seems to work just fine without having to use Messages on my phone?
I hope this isn't the case. I'm planning to buy a Galaxy Watch Active with my $130 credit from my Galaxy S10+ purchase. I'm using Google Android Messages as the messaging app on my phone because the default Samsung Messages app won't show SMS notifications on my Macbook Pro. But if using Android Messages means I won't get notifications for SMS on my Galaxy Watch Active, then I'll be in a pickle!
You do however get an error message on the watch saying that it can't retrieve the messages with a tick and a cross. However if you click on the cross everything works fine with a third-party messaging app.
I tried looking on the Watch faces section on my phone and there is no way to search. So I can't search there for the Launcher GA. I also went on the watch itself to the watch faces area to try to find that launcher and there is no search function there and that Launcher GA is definitely not in the first bunch of ones that I am scrolling through. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong spot to find this launcher you are talking about. Additionally, when you search on apps on the watch I do not see that one come up (and there when looking for a new app there IS a search function). Sp please let me kow where this Launcher app GA is and do you have to have it enabled? I am using textra on my Note 10+ and I also don't see anywhere in the textra app on the phone where to enable that it should send messages to the watch. Any help would be appreciated.
I have the Samsung Active 2 watch. I want to not have Samsung messages as my default. I use Google messages as my default on my phone. Very annoying that when I go into the messages app on my watch it keeps trying to ask me if I want Samsung messages as my default. There needs to be a way to not have this pop up without changing my face of my watch to work around it. Why can't Samsung just do an update to remove the default app setting or let the user decide on which app to sync it to.
i'm having the same trouble as you guys. it's terribly frustrating. i'm going to return my watch cause one of the main reasons i got it was to text. i hope that samsung pays attention to this and maybe fixes it
I received the watch for my birthday about 5 days ago. I am extremely frustrated in that I can't use Google Messages on it. With the Samsung messnger, I only see what I wrote and not any replies. I need Google Messages because I can also use it on my computer. It works fine on my Samsung phone and Samsung Pad so why doesn't it work on their watch?? I've looked all over on the Internet to see if there is a solutions. I saw one where he said you can download "App Launcher" (for the Samsung Watch) off of Google Playstore. When in it, you go to "Applications." In there he said that you can go to Google Messages as one of the choices. Unfortunately, "Google Messages" didn't show as one of the options. So, not sure if what was said was correct or not. But, it is frustrating.!!!!! I also have a seperate problem in that I only see one out of 10 emails come accross. So, why aren't all of them being shown? If I don't find a solution to these two problems, I will probably return the watch for without messaging and getting all my emails, what good is it. Any suggestions out there???? Thanks.
Agreed, I use Textra like WRCOP3123 but it is very disappointing there is not even an option to stop asking again about default messaging app on the watch. I wonder if it is a cross compatibility cross check line between the phone and the watch.
It feels like there is no other option/messages is being forced upon the user. I'm also surprised that no official Samsung representative has yet to respond - I hope they do to at least address customer concerns.
Same, I just upgraded(?) to a galaxy 3 watch from a fossil sport, and was really disappointed that there isn't even the option to download google apps from their limited app store. So now I'm forced to use their messaging app just to get the popups to stop. Samsung should know better than to try to strong arm people into using their apps. There's a lot of things I really miss about my less expensive old watch. I wish I'd kept it when I got this one.
Are you using Samsung Message, or Google? If Samsung Messages is set to default in "Default apps" (in Settings search bar), which version of Samsung Messages are you using? Does reverting to a prior version (June) via APK do anything to bring back the customize chatroom option? -electronics-co-ltd/samsung-messages/
Important: Your messages are stored in the SMS database on your device, and other apps may be able to access your messages. For more information about how to manage your app permissions, contact your device manufacturer.
If your device has more than one messaging app, you can make Google Messages your default messaging app. When you make Google Messages your default messaging app, you can review your text message history in Google Messages, and you'll only be able to send and receive new text messages in Google Messages.
This is a wonderful development for the Android ecosystem as a whole. While I firmly believe that users should be able to choose their own messaging app based on what they want/need (but that Telegram is the best), having Google Messages and its wide RCS support as the default option is key to getting more people to understand that Android phones do have access to a modern messaging experience. The sad truth is that, especially in the United States, people just use whatever ships on their phone out of the box, and never venture outside of that.
We discovered that on some devices the Samsung default app for SMS is missing after putting the device in device owner mode. Is there a possibilty to recover this app. Is it blocked? It can't be installed from Google Play.
It's almost the same with Samsung Gallery. After enrolling the device we can't open pictures and need to download Samsung Gallery from Google Play. Normally this app is preinstalled as far as I can remember.
Message and Gallery application never pre-installed from Samsung side as far as I am aware because after purchasing my own Samsung device, I needed to install both of these applications from the Galaxy application store, unfortunately.
Another issue is that apps that are preinstalled but not accessible (there is a setting for that in SMC) can not be reinstalled from Google Play in order to use them. So locked system apps can't be used as far as I found out. It would be much better if it was possible to grant access to these system apps through Google Play.
As written in my previous posts system apps are not enabled because that's not what I want. If I do that there are a lot of apps on the device which cannot be uninstalled and then are accessible or at least visible to the user. Deactivating system apps gives me the opportunity to makes those apps invisible. And again: the documentation says that the message app should not be affected by this setting.
Sorry for the confusion here. The messaging application provided by Samsung is getting disabled by default if system apps are not enabled maybe because it is not a base message application provided by Google on the Android platform and the applications which are documented here, are recommended by Google to be available on the devices which are enrolled under Android Enterprise. Samsung's application provided by them on their smartphones is developed by them, that might be the reason behind its blocking. I'll contact my support team to get the review from their side.
You can use the default Google Messages Application as default SMS option for your users. You may need to install on the phone. Please refer this link to the application. If you still want the Samsung message application to be enabled, I'd request you to open a support case as this needs detailed investigation on why Samsung's application got disabled.
It is getting more and more confusing. The issue with the message app from Samsung was on one device. No other had this issue. So what was the difference? On that device Android 7 was installed. So we upgraded to Android 8, did a factory reset and enrolled it again in device owner mode with system apps disabled. Now the message app is available.
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