AT&T is prematurely shutting down its messaging apps and deleting cloud backups

In May AT&T has announced that it will discontinue its messaging apps which came pre-installed on the phones and tablets it sold by the end of the year. According to a new report, the company has already shut down the apps.

AT&T said he would retire AT&T Message backup and synchronization program for phones and AT&T Messages for tablets this year. The carrier told CNET that the programs were closed on December 4.

AT&T advises its users to switch to Google Messages or whatever messaging app is the default app on their phones when it’s finished. The company prefers Google Messages, which it says provides a better RCS texting experience. Verizon and Samsung also encouraged their customers to switch to Google Messages.

AT&TThe user’s text messaging application will no longer be available, and messages stored in the cloud will also be deleted. However, since messages stored in the cloud are also stored locally, they will not be lost when you switch to Google Messages.

In 2021, AT&T made Google Messages the default messaging app on Android. This means that many customers should already have Google Messages on their phones. In 2023 the operator switched to the Google Jibe platform so that customers get the latest RCS features instantly. Although AT&T started supporting RCS in 2021, the experience was sometimes mixed due to interoperability issues, so it moved the RCS backend to Google’s Jibe.

When Verizon announced the shutdown of its own messaging app, there was a lot of uproar from customers, forcing the company to delay the shutdown. AT&T customers have become much more accommodating, or so it seems. One way or another, p AT&T once pulled the trigger, its customers have no choice but to switch to another text messaging client.