I've seen several complaints dating back to who knows when.
When group texting a really annoying message appears and covers the most recent text area making it extremely difficult to read or send an immediate text. The notification then proceeds to slowly fade out after a few seconds. This happens every time you open a group chat (sms/text) session.
It reads as follows:
"Group conversations will be sent as multimedia messages"
Many people complain how you can't disable and/or remove this feature entirely. Im sure many more would agree its a nuisance and unnecessary. People (myself included) even opt for a different group messenger system entirely due to this issue alone e.g. whatsapp.
Please kindly remove this notification or at least offer a way to disable it or position it to the top of the screen so you can read/write texts and not have to wait each and every time, esp if its an important text. if it's necessary as some legal disclaimer would there be a way to make it more obvious you're in a group chat without having to warn a user during each session? Some examples would be better group chat icons or design elements indicating youre in a group chat. Many third party apps do this very well.
Well, I was hoping to come here and find a solution to this issue. I guess one is not available so I've changed from what I think is the default samsung messages (logo is blue box with rounded corners and inside is a round bubble chat symbol with 3 dots in it.) to the verizon message+ app and guess what no annoying popup in group text so far this morning. Guess that's what I'll be using until samsung get's a clue.
You cannot disable or remove this multimedia message alert. It is part of the messaging system which allows a certain amount of letters and numbers to a limit. For example if you are sending a message, there is a counter (0/400). Once the 400 character limit is exceeded then the multimedia message feature will kick in.
Thanks Jayman1973 for sharing the information. Hi sztrimz, You are correct@Jayman1973, it is not possible to remove the default message alert. It is normal and part of the messaging system. The message will convert into a multimedia message once it reaches the limited amount of letters and numbers.
I know this an old thread, but I'm curious why the message needs to be show at all. I know it's a group text and I don't care if it coverts to multimedia or not. I just want to send my text. If I use too many characters I get a massage telling me I can't type anymore. Seriously, is there a reason the message has to show up at all?
Yep! I've been complaining also. A real problem with our world today is the inability to actually get a message to anyone who cares or has the ability to do anything about much of anything. This particular problem so F****g stupid, yet it persists, costs EVERY SAMSUNG/ANDROID user a second or two for EVERY fricking group text they try to read. Can you imagine the lost hours that adds up to over time across all users * all texts? I'm posting here to **bleep** but I know it's a waste of time. Tech companies just **bleep** these days.
I'll be the kids who write the code don't even use group text messages. They probably use SnapChat, TikTok, WhatsApp or something else and so never experience the pain of the general Joe like the rest of us.
You're right and to be honest im not even sure what i was thinking using this service for as long as i did. I completely abandoned it and would only consider using it as an absolute last resort.
