From 39cac2878de059992cb09a1ccf09b6bcece99fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:09:58 +0200 Subject: feat(android): no text messages backup, and one build again READ_SMS sits behind restricted settings outside a store and Play keeps it for the default SMS application: not worth a second build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/USERGUIDE.md | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md') diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 6035a1e..1808598 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -488,8 +488,8 @@ that matters to you. ### Backing up your phone On the Android application, **Android Sync** in the menu under your avatar, -top right, backs up your phone's photos, contacts, calendar, text messages and -the files of folders you choose to a group. +top right, backs up your phone's photos, contacts, calendar and the files of +folders you choose to a group. Text messages are not backed up. Only your **personal profile** is backed up. If your phone has a work profile, nothing in it is sent, and MeshBay installed inside the work profile offers no @@ -554,18 +554,6 @@ backup at all. (`calendar-2026-10-10-0900.ics`). Any calendar application can import it; repeating events, their exceptions and reminders come along. -#### Text messages - -- **Turn on** asks for access to your text messages. The first copy holds them - all; then, once a day, a new file holds only the ones that arrived or were - sent since. -- The files go by year (`alice-messages/2026/sms-2026-10-10-0900.xml`), in the - XML format SMS backup applications can restore onto a phone. Senders are - named when contacts backup is also allowed. Multimedia messages (MMS) are - not included. -- The version of the application from the Play Store has no text messages - backup: Play allows reading them only to the phone's messaging application. - #### Files - **Add a folder** opens Android's folder picker: choose `Documents`, a folder -- cgit v1.2.3