AT&T stated that it might retire the AT&T Messages Backup & Sync app for telephones and AT&T Messages for Pill this 12 months. The provider instructed CNET that the apps had been closed down on December 4.
AT&T recommends that its customers swap to Google Messages, or no matter messaging app is the default app on their telephones, after the shutdown. The corporate does lean extra in the direction of Google Messages, which it says offers 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. Nonetheless, since messages saved on the cloud had been additionally saved regionally, they will not be misplaced through the transition to Google Messages.
AT&T made Google Messages the default Android messaging app in 2021. Because of this many shoppers ought to have already got Google Messages on their telephones.
In 2023, the carrier 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 on account of 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 plenty of hue and cry from its clients, forcing the corporate to delay the shutdown. AT&T clients have been way more accepting, or so it seems. Both method, with AT&T having pulled the set off already, there is no different choice for its clients apart from switching to a different texting consumer.
