if you have a samsung galaxy/note phone (and potentially other samsungs) disable storage permissions for stock messenger, long story short apparently some people’s entire galleries are being texted to random recipients after a recent update. so uh. your whole gallery can be texted to a random contact without your knowledge. evidence of the photos being sent only show up to the recipient. so unless they tell you, someone could have all of your pictures without your knowledge. this is a truly dangerous bug and more people are realizing they are affected by the hour. nobody knows what causes it or how to stop it for sure
just want to emphasize that this is happening and is horrible and potentially life changing. a few people are reporting their entire gallery being texted to a random contact. every photo. aside from the obvious danger of accidentally sending inappropriate pictures to co-workers or something, this could out a lot of people to abusive family or put folks in danger or someone even mentioned having inappropriate pictures accidentally sent to a child. the biggest workarounds right now are switching from the stock messenger app on samsung devices and disabling storage permissions and connectivity between gallery and SMS and just as many permissions as possible until anyone figures out why this is happening. this bug potentially affects anyone using the stock samsung text/messenger/SMS app.
FYI, although a ton of apps on my phone are called “Samsung ___________,” the messages app is just labeled Messages. (So is the Android Messages one actually, which is really confusing.)
So it’s not where you’d expect “Samsung Messages” to be in the alphabetical list of apps. If you already downloaded other things that are listed as “Messages”: the Samsung one has the yellow icon of a speech bubble, and is the one you can’t uninstall. 🙄
(On the bright side, i switched to Mood ages ago because I found the stock app to be really annoying, I forget why. And this entire time, it’s been sending me two pop-up alerts whenever I get a text. So this finally got me to go in and turn everything it can do off.)
as of 7/4/18 this is a week old, so probably still a problem
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