Aga-C
commented
8 months ago It's a duplicate of https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger/issues/395.
Closed JunkySneaks closed 8 months ago
Aga-C
commented
8 months ago It's a duplicate of https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger/issues/395.
Been using the suite of apps when setting up my mom’s phone and it has been going great for the most part. The only big gripe we have is how image saving is handled with the SMS messenger app.
If I were to select and save an image, pressing the save icon opens our phone’s file directory, and I have to specify which folder it goes to. A bit odd for photos and videos, where 99.9% of the time we just want it to immediately save to our photo gallery. (Side note: focusing on an image in order to select “open with gallery” doesn’t make it move to our gallery, it just opens the image a second time still within the messaging app, so that action is kinda confusing and pointless for us)
Where the real issue begins is if someone sends multiple images in a single message. If you try to hold on a single image for selection, it instead uses the entire message with EVERY image being selected; resulting in the save icon not showing up at all. This heavily confused us when we first tried to save photos, as we initially thought this feature was completely absent, unaware we were selecting photos that were a part of a single bulk message.
In order to save them all, I have to tap on each photo individually, then click share > open with files > open dcim folder > open camera folder > and click save, doing this for every single one. The real pain comes from the fact that once the image saves, you lose your place in the conversation and get kicked back down to the start. So in our case where we wanted to save photos that were sent some time ago, we have to scroll all the way back up, having to wait for all the messages to load every time just to get back to the other images to do the whole 6 step share procedure all over again.
Instead of this convoluted process, it would be a lot less cumbersome if saving was a one click download that instantly puts them in the photo gallery, and having it also work with messages of multiple photos/videos. The default messaging app that came with our phone works like that, but the UI is ugly as sin and we like almost everything else about this simple sms to use it instead.
Maybe it could be implemented like the iOS messages app, where there’s a download button sitting next to photo/video and pressing it makes everything in the message go straight to the photos app. That would be ideal, but at the very least, changing it so this current rigamarole of saving photos isn’t a thing anymore would be much appreciated.