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
    2020-03-02T16:10:53+00:00

    I just switched to Google Messages.  So far so good.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-28T16:38:06+00:00

    I use a Samsung Note and my brother has a Samsung Galaxy and it was duplicating everything on his phone too.

    QUITE ANNOYING.

    Had some instances where it was quadruplicating my texts yesterday.

    I like the concept of the app and it is especially nice because I lot of stuff on laptop, but have about arrived at same point as many others in that I am turning it off except for when I explicitly want to send something (link, image) from laptop to someone who primarily uses phone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-28T15:51:30+00:00

    I am having the same problem. The upside is while the duplicate messages are being displayed in both the Your Phone App and on my Samsung, the recipients of the texts are NOT receiving duplicate texts. So while it is very aggravating, at least the duplicates aren't actually being sent.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-23T23:24:31+00:00

    This seems to be related to if you have your messages sms app ON YOUR PHONE up and running. I can duplicate it at will by stopping the app on phone. It's mirroring your phone so that isn't unreasonable for it to be doing if the phones sms app is active.

    I might be proved wrong in next 5 minutes but that is what I am seeing.

    Not a FORCE STOP but on my Samsung Note 9 flicking it upward seems to do the trick. Whatever that flicking upward of the screen when I the III button at the bottom of the screen,

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-22T15:35:40+00:00

    Congrats on resolving the problem by switching from the Samsung Message app to the Google Message app.

    Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge).  I've been using the Google Message app for several months (which I double- and triple- checked to be sure), and I still have the problem.

    As an FYI for everyone out there, here's a summary of what I know, so far:

    • If you're having this problem, then you're probably using a Samsung phone.
    • In that case, most people have solved this problem by switching the default messaging from the built-in default Samsung Message app to the (downloadable) Google Message app.

    I might be able to really test it by uninstalling the (default) Samsung Message app, but I'll have to root my phone in order to do that, and I'm not really sure it's that important.

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