AT&T stated that it might retire the AT&T Messages Backup & Sync app for telephones and AT&T Messages for Pill this yr. The provider advised CNET that the apps have been closed down on December 4.
AT&T recommends that its customers change to Google Messages, or no matter messaging app is the default app on their telephones, after the shutdown. The corporate does favor Google Messages, which it says supplies a greater RCS texting expertise. Verizon and Samsung have additionally been pushing their clients to modify to Google Messages.
AT&T‘s texting app is not going to be accessible any longer and the messages saved on the cloud may even be deleted. Nevertheless, since messages saved on the cloud have been additionally saved domestically, they will not be misplaced in the course of the transition to Google Messages.
AT&T made Google Messages the default Android messaging app in 2021. Which means that many purchasers ought to have already got Google Messages on their telephones.
In 2023, the provider switched to Google’s Jibe platform to ensure its clients get the newest RCS options immediately. Though AT&T started supporting RCS in 2021, the expertise was typically spotty attributable to interoperability points, which is why it migrated the RCS backend to Google’s Jibe.
When Verizon introduced that it might sundown its proprietary messaging app, there was numerous hue and cry from its clients, forcing the corporate to delay the shutdown. AT&T clients have been much more accepting, or so it seems. Both manner, with AT&T having pulled the set off already, there isn’t any different choice for its clients aside from switching to a different texting consumer.
