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How to warn about MMS

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Halloween Jack

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Hi guys,

In the past I posted emojis and got charged 40p a pop for them.

I'm not sure if things have changed now. I googled it and it seems you can change a setting to warn you if a text will become an MMS. (presumably before it goes)

I thought I found it but I did a couple of tests and got no warning that a text became an MMS.

Can someone tell me how to prevent this on the Note 8?

Thanks
 
I stopped using Textra on my old phone. There was something it wouldn't do... I forget what... It wouldn't let me copy out contact info or something like that.

There's a setting in Messagesettings/more settings/multimedia settings/set restrictions

Thought that'd be it. But doesn't seem to do a thing.

A bit annoying avoiding emojis completely because I don't know what's ok or not.

Thanks for your reply though

Just set that to restricted but it still lets me send a photo. This is then marked as MMS.

But if I do a massive stream of emojiis it doesn't mark text as MMS

So i don't know what's going on :(
 
what carrier are you on? are you in the USA? didnt know carriers still charge per MMS these days... :thinking:

i don't know what the last time you used textra but the app is amazing. it will totally eliminate your issue you are trying to avoid.
 
Yep, you may be right. I'm not going to worry about it. I hardly use text anymore anyway. Only when Whatsapp is down :)

I might give it another go. I wish I could remember the problem I had.... It was something about getting info out of a text and into a contact or something. I had to write it down (imagine that! Had to find a pen !)

Thanks
 
marctronixx said:
what carrier are you on? are you in the USA? didnt know carriers still charge per MMS these days... :thinking:
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They said "40p" per MMS, so I assume one of the UK carriers. And here they definitely do charge (excessively) for MMS, while SMS have been effectively free for a very long time (either actually free or an inclusive allowance so large that it makes no difference). It's one reason I have my messaging app settings to never convert long messages to MMS, and send group texts as SMS (though most message apps describe this setting in a way that doesn't tell you what is SMS and what is MMS).

But to be honest I don't know many people who use MMS at all: internet-based message apps like WhatsApp do the same things for no charge, and hence it's years since anyone has sent me an MMS.
 
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