Texting frustrations

[mojothehut]

Hey all.
So I dont follow mobile technology very closely. I have a galaxy S9.
After years and years of using Android, I'm finally just tired of the texting drama
between Android and Apple.

Every single person in my family and my social group uses Apple. I'm the odd duck Android user
Whenever they send me a large text, it comes to my phone broken up into several texts and out of order.
Same when I send one of them a large message. They also enjoy sending each other large gifs , where as mine
are limited to 1mb in size.

Is there any way to resolve this, short of switching to Apple? I really enjoy Android, I have time and money invested in
my google account. But it seems like everyone around me uses Apple. Even all of my coworkers. Its ridiculous how
much crap I get from all these people because my text messages look like junk on their end.

Yeah I just checked my contacts, out of the 47 mobile numbers I have, only 1 is Android =(
Is it time to just throw in the towel and conform so that texting might be a little easier?

 

[lakedude]

 

[lakedude]

Looks like an SMS vs MMS issue. Check out above video for helpful trick.

 

[lakedude]

This really isn't an Apple vs Android thing. The S9 is awesome, I have an S8. Of course the Apple phones are very nice as well but since you already have an S9 it would be silly to switch to Apple now. Maybe next time you are ready for an upgrade but not now.

 

[mojothehut]

Ah cool thanks for the video. I had to download google messages. guess i've been using the default Samsung message app all these years. Doesn't seem to be a way to convert SMS to MMS with Samsung's.
But Google seems to be working! Woop woop!

 

[Ichinisan]

I think some carriers break-up SMS messages over a certain length. Not sure if it happens outgoing or incoming, but I've experienced it.

iMessage can have the same issue with out-of-order messages.