Android 4.4 Kitkat SMS Restrictions
Starting from Android 4.4, Google has put more restrictions on SMS/MMS handling, this affected all SMS privacy or blocking apps. The restrictions are:
- Only the default SMS app can save SMS, other SMS apps can still receive and send SMS, but they can not save SMS to the phone.
- No SMS app can stop other SMS apps from receiving the messages
What does this mean to us the app developers
- We had to develop a full feature SMS app, that you can use as the default SMS app. Our SMS app will communicate with the blocker app to perform the SMS blocking function.
- You can download our Easy Message app here
What does this mean to you
- You will need to download our SMS app and select that as the default SMS app.
- You can NOT have any third party SMS app installed on your phone, stock SMS comes with the phone can stay.
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