A Bug in Samsung’s Default Texting App Is Sending Random Pics to Other People

Sending pictures to others is one of the most introductory subprogram of a smartphone , but when your telephone ’s texting app start randomly pushing out photograph without your cognition , you got a problem .

And unluckily , according to a smattering of complaints onRedditandthe official Samsung forums , it seems that ’s on the button what happened to a smattering of Samsung headphone users , including owners of belated fashion model devices such as theGalaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S9 .

According to user reports , the trouble stems from Samsung Messages , the default texting app on Galaxy gadget , which ( for reasons that have n’t been determined ) , is erroneously post pictures salt away on the gadget to random contacts via SMS . One user on Reddit even claims that instead of broadcast one motion picture , Samsung Messages sent out their entire exposure gallery to a physical contact in the middle of the Nox .

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Luckily for that individual ( or maybe not ) , those picture were sent to their partner . But for others who may have had pics sent to more sensitive recipient like a business married person or boss , the hemipterous insect could give other people an undesirable peek into their private life .

The scariest part about this bug is that when Samsung Messages bugs out sends pics to other people , it reportedly does n’t leave any grounds of it doing so , which mean people may not bang their photos have been released into the wild until it ’s too belatedly .

presently , theprevailing theoryas to what ’s causing this bug is a weird interaction between Samsung Messages and recentRCS visibility updatesthat have undulate out on carriers include T - Mobile . The goal of RCS ( Rich Communication Services ) is to enhance the out-of-date SMS protocol with new features like better medium communion , typewrite indicator , and read gross . The issue right now is that it seems something about the way RCS is handle in Samsung Messages is mess all that up .

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Asked for comment , Samsung sent Gizmodo a statement , suppose , “ We are aware of the write up regarding this matter and our technical team are search into it . Concerned customer are encouraged to touch us straightaway at 1 - 800 - SAMSUNG . ” We also achieve out to T - Mobile , which responded by referring user back to Samsung , saying , “ It ’s not a T - Mobile egress . ”

In the interim , for Samsung owner bear on that their phone might be send sore moving picture to random inter-group communication , there are currently two main fixes to this . The first is to go into your telephone set ’s app scene and reverse Samsung Messages ’ ability to access warehousing . Until a real solution is free , this will forbid Messages from sending picture or anything else stored on your gadget , whether you want it to or not .

The other option is to switch to a unlike texting app likeAndroid Messagesor Textra , which do n’t seem effected by whatever is plaguing Samsung ’s texting app ( so far ) . Hopefully , this number gets resolved quickly , because until it does , there ’s no warrantee of privateness for hoi polloi using Samsung ’s default option texting app .

William Duplessie