Your Phone app shows duplicate sent messages

Anonymous
2019-07-15T14:34:47+00:00

My Your Phone app is duplicating messages sent, sporadically. This has been happening the past few days. Windows and Your Phone apps have been updated. The duplicates are appearing in my Android texting app (Textra) as well. I have used Pulse, Google Messages, and Samsung Flow previously w/o this occurring.

Windows 10 Pro 1903

Android Pie, standard, non-rooted ROM

'Advisors', please don't ask me to run scannow or complete a repair install...thanks.

***Modified title from: Your Phone app duplicates messages sent***

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-25T02:56:25+00:00

    So, I had this issue. I wanted to see how quickly the message would send from the computer app. I had messages open on both the computer and phone. When the app is closed on the phone, I don't get duplicates. I guess this isn't like the continuity features on iPhones with other Apple devices since the brands are different. So I'm guessing people with Windows phones don't have this same issue like Android users are having.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-15T18:26:25+00:00

    I think they are chipping away at it slowly but surely as evidenced by this. Last time I looked at date it was older.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-15T16:31:01+00:00

    After the last windows update and some reboots, the issue is now gone on my machine.  W10x64 (may 15 updated)/S20 Android 10.  

    I hope this is something MS is actually actively working on to improve.  With all the data being "shared" involuntarily, this is one of the main reasons I chose to not lockdown my machine from the snooping, the convenience won out.  If that fails to perform, I have no reason or will to continue sharing or stay logged in to an MS account.  Hopefully the shear number of Pushbullet type users are out there is some incentive for whoever might be working on this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-15T15:54:06+00:00

    Hey @Wayne (live.com#ankonaskiff17)"),

    I'm glad you're able to warn others about potential Bluetooth problems they may encounter; as we've all found, different users have different experiences, and it's good to have a group of people (us!) who are here to help.

    I should note that not all users will "see" the same (Win10) "Your Phone", and that goes for all facets of it.  For example, I have Win10 1909 (build 18363.836) paired to a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (running the Samsung provided Android 8.0).  Using the app, I can neither see nor control the phone's screen, nor does it use any Bluetooth connectivity; however, from what I've seen, later Samsung phone models allow you to do things that the "lesser" models (such as mine) don't.

    In my case, my solution was to keep the phone's WiFi off (when sending messages through the Win10 app), but obviously there's more to it than just that (depending on your exact hardware, OS, etc).

    Best to all -- stay safe and sane!

    Dave

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-11T19:35:14+00:00

    Help it's on my xbox

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