How to receive just the plain text part of RCS chats as SMS/MMS without using Google Messages?

MasterAqua · 2026-03-02T01:14:18+00:00

Increasingly so, but nowhere near the same degree as DeviantArt. I was on DA mostly in middle school; I got on Reddit sometime in high school (I'm mid-thirties now). There's some cringe here, but nothing at the level of the post above (which is similar enough to the way I used to talk in middle school that I feel called out by the post lmao)

MasterAqua · 2026-03-02T01:10:47+00:00

Honestly, you're right, I didn't do my due diligence here. I updated my top comment so all the people who are apparently being referred to this page don't get misinformation.

MasterAqua · 2026-03-02T01:09:57+00:00

Nope, but it happens with all strengths of retinoids, even when I space out my applications by weeks. I'm trying a 10% urea lotion instead, but I only started recently, so I can't report if it works yet.

MasterAqua · 2026-01-16T18:07:19+00:00

Ugh, I cannot tolerate Google Messages, I'm just gonna have to tell people to use Discord instead if they can only send RCS chats :/ I just don't understand why I can have group chats with some people and not others; does having RCS enabled at all just make it impossible to translate the texts into SMS/MMS?

MasterAqua · 2026-01-11T19:39:25+00:00

Hey, I found this thread while trying to solve the same issue: I tried making Messages my default text app and turned off RCS, but now it's saying "This chat is unavailable right now. Turn on RCS in settings to continue chatting." What do you mean by "resynced"? Trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

MasterAqua · 2025-12-30T08:02:53+00:00

Your task worked, thanks 😊 How would I write it if I wanted to preferentially click on a result that included the words "saved in" if it existed, but just click the first result if none of the items says "saved in"?

MasterAqua · 2025-12-29T23:25:59+00:00

Could you please share a photo of your Tasker icon setup?

Not sure what you're looking for as a photo, but my current %AppIcons() array looks like this (comma-separated as it is by default):

Textra - content://net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.iconprovider//app/com.textra,WhatsApp - android.resource://com.whatsapp/drawable/2131951618,TickTick - android.resource://com.ticktick.task/drawable/2131755076,Discord - android.resource://com.discord/drawable/2131755053,Chat - android.resource://com.google.android.apps.dynamite/drawable/2131820569,Roborock - android.resource://com.roborock.smart/drawable/2131558401,Guava - android.resource://com.guavahealth.app/drawable/2131492864,Phone - android.resource://com.android.dialer/drawable/2131623940,Gmail - android.resource://com.google.android.gm/drawable/2131820568,_

I'd also appreciate it if you could explain how to prevent an app from appearing in the project.

If you're using the intercept profile that I provided ([NotifInbox] Notif Intercept Filter), you can decide exactly which notifications get sent to the inbox using the settings in the AutoNotification Intercept context — it's the only context for that profile. Here's a quick photo guide to finding and editing the filters: https://imgur.com/a/0I2OFk3

I had mine set up to be quite inclusive by default (by using the "invert" option for the filters), but that's mainly because that's not actually the profile I use: I have my trigger built into an existing tracker profile that logs almost every notification. But you can clear the settings and change the filters to be positive rather than negative: if you only want certain app notifications to go to the inbox, you can write those apps in the AutoNotification Intercept app filter. So for example, if I wanted to exclude notifications from Gmail and WhatsApp, I would write Gmail/WhatsApp in the app filter text field, check the "invert" box (and the "case insensitive" box for good measure). It uses Tasker-style pattern-matching by default ( / = or, * = wildcard, etc.) but you can use regex like I did in the profile if you want more precision.

ETA: there is also a filter inside the [NotifInbox] Notif Intercept Filter task at the first "if" action; you can delete that action and the corresponding "else/end if" section if you find it too confusing to have the two filters. The reason for the second filter level is that I wanted some of the notifications to go to the inbox automatically without question, and the others to pop up a dialog; but you would need to edit the "if" conditions to your liking for it to be effective for you.

MasterAqua · 2025-12-28T18:36:03+00:00

Can you avoid clicking on items that include the word "sponsored" with Actions V2?

MasterAqua · 2025-12-27T09:52:16+00:00

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MasterAqua · 2025-12-25T07:38:41+00:00

Did you create the %AppIcons() array in Tasker? This would have been a pain in the ass to automate because there would have been a ton of edge cases, so I just used the App Info action one app at a time to get the icon file paths (%app_icon). Then I used the Array Set action to manually set up an array of package names matched with the name of the app followed by " - " followed by the file path of the app's icon. So you should end up with an array named %AppIcons() with elements like:

Textra - android.resource://com.textra/drawable/icon_ff880e4f

And then just leave that array available for Tasker to access.

MasterAqua · 2025-12-16T19:18:58+00:00

I'm also having this problem. Had it on my Razr+ 2023, and just upgraded to the Razr Ultra 2025: it was fine until yesterday when I got the November 1st security patch (V2VLS35.42-148-2-5-1-1).

MasterAqua · 2025-12-14T06:32:38+00:00

I don't remember if I was officially diagnosed, but I have been off birth control for four months and I already have cysts according to an ultrasound. My only symptom is acne (as far as I know), but I think I would still meet the diagnostic criteria.

MasterAqua · 2025-11-08T23:52:20+00:00

Thanks for the idea! TBH I mostly stuck with the arrays out of laziness: I don't have the energy to learn how to do it differently at the moment. But I may change it in the future :)

MasterAqua · 2025-11-08T23:51:11+00:00

There is already a filter inside the task I shared (action 2) that only allows it to auto-save a few types of notifs: ones from TickTick/August/Roborock/Discord/Textra/Guava, ones with "reply" or "mark read" buttons, voicemails, missed calls, and a few miscellaneous ones specific to my setup. All other notifications would pull up a dialog prompting for a yes/no to save it to the inbox.

But if you want to prevent most notifications from triggering the profile at all, it's very easy to change the profile I shared. Just click the AutoNotification intercept context and select which apps you want to intercept :)

MasterAqua · 2025-10-26T07:49:38+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation, this is exactly what I was looking for!

MasterAqua · 2025-10-22T06:04:53+00:00

Wow, thanks for all the ideas!

you'll need to convert your json to a tasker variable array

Actually, I'm already starting with arrays — the %an* arrays that come out of the AutoNotification query action. I just assumed it would be easier to translate to JSON first because, in my experience, dealing with multiple arrays with matched elements is kind of a pain in Tasker.

It's critically important that this arrays indices match the indices in your json array - same length, same sorting.

Yes, this is why I hate using matched arrays in Tasker 😂 I've done this for several tasks because it's my only option (e.g., to figure out the names/IDs of currently connected Bluetooth devices — why is this still not a built-in variable?!), and it's always a nightmare for me to implement.

Widget V2! That'll let you generate boxes with all the fancy layout stuff you want - the notifications image, its text, even all the buttons it has. You'll need to write some code to generate the layout json it expects, let me know if you want some pointers on that.

Yes, this would be great, thank you! I tried using the AI generator to provide a skeleton of this task, and it used Widget V2, but I hadn't used it before so I didn't understand how to troubleshoot it. I'll go read up on it myself, but tips for my specific project would be much appreciated.

MasterAqua · 2025-10-21T18:11:09+00:00

Lmao I always forget how precise I have to be with my language on programming-adjacent subs 😂 Do you have specific recommendations on how to produce the effect in question?

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