Your Phone app shows duplicate sent messages

My suspicion is that this problem is with the Android OS, not the Windows App, which is why Microsoft is quiet about it.

Before trying the Your Phone app, I tried PushBullet, which is a non-microsoft product.  It has similar features, where you can text from your desktop, etc.

It exhibited the same spurious duplicate text issues.  In fact, those duplicate text issues were why I uninstalled Pushbullet and tried "Your Phone" in the first place.

I suspect that the reason some of those other apps worked (ie: samsung flow, google messages, etc) is because they install a replacement messaging app, which is tightly integrated with their PC messaging client.

In the case of PushBullet and "Your Phone", they just try and piggy-back onto whatever existing messaging app is there, using the core OS facilities for doing so, and that's where the issues arise.

Just my two cents.

I'm having the same problem seeing duplicate messages using "Your Phone" app on my Windows 10 Lenovo All-in-one desktop and a Samsung Galaxy 7 phone. 

Ironically, on other conversation threads, I see just the replies from the other person and NONE of the messages I sent! I read a help article that suggested I should uncheck Advanced Messaging to fix this problem..... but that didn't work. :-(

Geo

Hi --

You may be right, and that wasn't something I'd considered, before.  However, you mentioned that Microsoft is being quiet because the problem isn't with their app, and I tend to disagree with that: If they know that they're not at fault, I'd think that they'd happily point the finger at the known issue (i.e., the OS), so that they can stop being blamed for it.

It's somewhat of a moot point, though; right now, we need to use both the OS and the app, and the only thing we know with certainty is that the problem persists.

Hi Geo,

Thanks for chiming in.  Although not everyone mentions the manufacturer of their mobile device (i.e., phone), it seems that the ones who do are all using Samsung.  If that's the case, then it seems reasonable to assume that it's something with Samsung's customized Android build.

But, right now, that doesn't really help anyone; all we can do is just work with it as best we can.

Good luck!

I've been able to resolve this issue on my phone by replacing the default Android "Messages" app, with the Google "Messages" app and setting it as my default messaging app.  (Yeah, it was pretty confusing when installing: "Do you want to replace Messages with Messages?"...)

So far, I haven't had any problems with duplicated messages since doing this.  

I'll keep my fingers crossed...