Message+ App Reviews

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Great app!. I think its great, because for people who have different service plans and especially for different phones I like to see that I can message them through their messaging app, from when I had samsung and texted somebody from an iphone I always had to turn my data on to send pictures or so on, but with this app I can message my sister with a samsung! Its great 😄 Not a big fan how it gives me messages through both of my messaging apps, which is probably from something else I have to check out but other than that this app is great!

Getting Better with the Newest Update. I like the changes. Here are four things that I suggest: 1) When we go to fill in the name of the person to send a scheduled text to, there needs to be a search option. 2) We should be able to send to named groups. For instance, I have a group called Mom & Dad but they don’t show up for a scheduled message in the new update. 3) When sending a scheduled message, the tiny box needs to be much bigger. It should take up most of the screen. 4) For the auto-reply, allow us to make/save templates. If you want to take #4 even further, allow us to preset different auto-replies during different times of day & week. (ie: one for work hours, one for while I’m asleep, etc.

Verizon lies. Verizon sends me this email “ This is a necessary step to understanding what could be the issue that you're describing. Currently, there are no open alerts for this issue, so this seems to be an isolated issue regarding the software of your device. We would recommend backing up your text messages to a cloud based storage in general to avoid any loss in your personal information. Afterwards, we would suggest removing the application and downloading it again. Please let us know of any updates, so we may continue to look into this for you. TaylorH_VZW”. SO THIS IS AN ISOLATED ISSUE ON MY IPAD DEVICE BECAUSE OF APPLE’S SOFTWARE? I CAN FIND NO WAY TO BACKUP MY OLD TEXT MESSAGES TO A CLOUD STORAGE. MY WIFE’S MESSAGE + WAS NOT UPDATED TO 5.0 ON HER IPAD. IT’S WORKING FINE. MY IPAD UPDATED TO 5.0. IT WON’T OPEN. WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME IOS UPDATED VERSION. DON’T TELL ME IT’S AN IOS PROBLEM AND THERE ARE NO OPEN ALERTS.

Can’t get it to work - try this. If Message+ just won’t work on your phone, try this: Go to a device like an iPad that is connected through Verizon to your phone. Open Message+ on that device, not your phone, click on Menu > Setting > Manage Connected Devices. A list will show how many devices Verizon thinks your phone is connected to. DISCONNECT all the devices you know were in the past and should be removed - get the number down to at most four. When that’s done try to activate Message+ again one the Phone ! Verizon doesn’t know this, don’t ask them.

Awesome. It’s a great app while your MNO is Verizon, it helps you too keep your phone line even while you are traveling outside of the country to make calls and send and receive messages. for those who complains about iMessage issue, they are right but they should know the iMessage is not using Verizon Messaging servers, when you are using iMessage, you are using apple servers, it’s like WhatsApp or Telegram apps. I have enabled this app on another iPhone with a European SIM so I have my US no. When traveling and I can call, s/r text messages through this app while using EU SIM LTE.

Un-installing after 2+ years of utilization.. The last two updates have really brought this app back in time. It no longer synchronizes correctly between products that have the same version of this app with the same user account installed. There is no reason in today's day and age that I would have to sort through three different devices in order to review a complete previous conversation. I thought the whole idea was, 'One app with one service for all your devices.'??? One minute it's telling me that it requires the Verizon cloud while at the same moment in time I am receiving emails from Verizon telling me that the Verizon cloud is ceasing to exist. After installing the newest version on a brand new device straight out of the box I am mediately started getting error messages telling me that the VIP future would not be functional or available to me. Enough typing, time to uninstall!

Does not play well with others. I have been using this now for a few months. My main concern is that it does not carryover my messages from my iPhone to my iPad. Very problematic because you can’t pick up conversations when half the information is only on me device. Fix this communication problem and this Verizon software wouldn’t be too bad. I don’t know why Verizon changed the ability to get non iPhone texts on the iPad in the first place. It used to work great on my old iPad but all of a sudden it didn’t work anymore and I was forced to use one for iPhones and one for non iPhones messages. Very inconvenient and the the non communication between my iPhone and iPad just complicates it further.

Droid and iOS Verizon Messages. I have about 30 devices I am responsible for in our business and I pretty well hate Verizon messages. If you change a droid device to an iOS (via SIM card change) it will kill all group messages on both devices so you can’t even put the sim back in the old phone to return to what it was. It will also spam everyone in all your groups at least each 3 times for each group. Exploding all your coworkers phones with dozens to hundreds of texts. When you call Verizon to try and fix it they will scratch their sac for a while and blame it on apple. Meanwhile your phone number/SIM card won’t work with !any! Group messages for the foreseeable future. And if you decide to stay with the iOS device…you can send messages in Verizon messages but you won’t receive any! At all…except through the apple message app which won’t do group messages. So the long and short of it is…try it…I dare you!!!!!!

Pretty Cool. This is a pretty neat app initially and has some awesome features. So far I have run into a couple problems with it already and I haven't had it more than 24 hours yet.. it won't let me load my info into the 911 response for some reason..it just tells me to try later (and I don't think I have to go into details at why that is important that the feature needs to work). I've also tried the auto reply feature, however it for some reason won't let me turn it on after I followed all the directions. Also, I don't know if I'm missing something but I wish there was an option to be able to turn the alerts off because I don't want it on at all times and don't like getting 2 alerts every time I get a new text message. Overall..after some updates have been made I think this will be a very handy app!

Not much value-add over Native Messages app. To this iOS user, the biggest advantage of the Message+ app is that it automatically identifies other chat participants in group conversations. (Without it, unless a group member identifies him-/herself with a #NAME command, all others are doomed to see only that person as a phone #.) Otherwise, using Message+ means it takes over for all your SMS/MMS threads, which I do NOT want. I don’t see any real advantage outside of group member naming. Verizon sends messages periodically, telling me I have messages waiting (as if I cannot see them,) but when I install the app, I find I see the same messages in Message+ as I saw in Messages.

Not accessible. Apparently Verizon Wireless does not care about their customers they have disabilities. Because this review that I have done for over a few years now. Nothings been done about the app. It goes to say about Verizon‘s character! Maybe the people that who are disabled on a run up and down the street. And scream discrimination, and racist. Then maybe something will get done. That seems all it takes for a company to recognize people with all disabilities. From A-to-Z. I like the app because of auto message reply. But like all developers they don’t give a crap. This app is not accessible for voiceover on the Apple platforms or other platforms. I do not recommend this app for this company to anyone. Because of the disability discrimination. That they don’t care to recognize. I shall be leaving soon as possible.

Really Verizon?. Tell me again how long you've been around? 🤔 Those of us who didn't have Verizon as our service provider had to download your app to receive a short video from a vacation with friends - per directions from the Verizon user's phone❗️ At first a small inconvenience 🙄considering all of the other phone providers were compatible, since the non Verizon phones 📱 were sending media back and forth all week. Okay- App downloaded and video was sent, received..... 😏next you would save it to your gallery or share it in your social media or with family... nope😩. Trying to save it, it says "report spam" or "delete" are your choices. Verizon fix this!😠This does not make me want you as my service provider 😑quite the opposite. 1. You cannot save the media from your app, 2. now every time you open the app it downloads the video again and again. What a miserable experience and disappointment with the Verizon message app. 👎👎👎👎👎

Only works intermittently on iPhone 6S. I have an iPhone 6S and it’s hit or miss as to weather or not I get a notification that I’ve received a msg. Sometimes the msgs don’t even come through at all. To improve functionality, the developers suggest shutting off iMessage because the formatting isn’t compatible with this app. Shutting off iMessage causes issues communicating with other iDevices. This becomes a real problem if you have children who can only msg via WiFi. Besides that, the design is simple. A bit lacking in the navigation department, however. It has miner customization capabilities that are nicer to look at than the standard iMessage. Could be a decent app if the bugs were worked out. Seeing as there haven’t been any updates in the past 7 months, though, I’m not holding out for fixes any time soon.

Needs to support multiple phone numbers/accounts concurrently!. It’s an okay messaging app with a good amount of features, except one absolutely CRITICAL feature for those of us who have two cell phones (like one for business and one for personal). This app can only handle one phone number’s messaging. So for those of us that have only one tablet and two phones (all on Verizon’s network, no less), we can’t even use it as a text messaging center on our tablet, which partially defeats the purpose of having the tablet app version in the first place. Come on Verizon, with your billions and billions of dollars, you can’t even come up with an app that can handle two phone numbers’ text messaging concurrently? Ideally, you could have the two (or more) phone numbers listed at the top left to easily tap on and go back and forth between their different sets of messages. You could also have an optional integrated view that combines them — so you can see and reply to all messages from a single view. At least offer the first option to us with full syncing with those phones’ messages. Basically, think of treating it like many email clients do with handling multiple accounts. Then you’d truly have a really useful messaging app, and could give Apple Messages a run for their money.

Text messaging auto reply feature!!!. I was truly excited to finally see an app that allows to have auto reply functionality in text messaging. Truly a blessing for folks that have clients who reach out to you via text over other means. In the beginning, it worked wonderfully. However, for some reason, it has become extremely finicky when trying to turn it on and off. Often times you have to flip the lever a few times to get it to stick. And even when you do, there’s times where I would back out come back and the lever would be still in the original position. They really truly need to focus on this on the next update. I have used this functionality for the last couple of years. Jump ahead to a couple of months ago, the auto reply functionality is stuck in the on position. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app numerous times, and it is still stuck there. Right now there’s a trouble ticket into Verizon, but there has been no resolution as of yet. And at some point, they also need to increase the maximum auto reply character count I would say at least an extra 30 to 40 characters Minimum. I really would love to see this work properly, but it needs a lot of work clearly.

Good idea but not complete not reliably syncing. If this app fully synced "both" directions with the phone and other devices it would be great. But it doesn't sync outgoing messages sent from another device or computer to the native text thread on the phone. And I believe texts within this app are only saved 90 days. Those two items take a potential 5 star app to 1 if used for business, maybe a 2 if only used for fun. Anything less than a full sync and control over when messages are deleted make the app unreliable. If using just for fun, there are many other better messengers that have no tie in to Verizon. Seems like an easy fix to make without forcing users to change the default native texting app on the phone.

Has Potential But I Expected More from Verizon. I was introduced to this app when my family needed to started massive text communication following bad health news. We needed to text 50-70 ppl at the time. At first my texts came through in my regular messages but wouldn’t identify the users even if they were in my contacts. My husband was added to group as admin and he never once received a text in his messages. I showed him a message that referenced Message+ app. He added it and all is hunky dorey for him. Not so much for me. I get some of my messages and others stay in Message+ only. Most come to both boxes (iMessage or not). It leaves me frustrated wading thru duplicate messages to find those I want. I just wish it was consistent and helpful.

App did a bug fix now app won’t open!. So APP says it did bug fix 5 days ago and now I cannot even open the app. And cannot get anyone to help. Finally got ahold of Verizon and they said they can’t fix their own app. Oh so time to switch carriers! If I could give Verizon a -10 I would. So I finally received a response AFTER I deleted the app, losing all my photos and messages I was keeping! Great response time. If only I could give the developer and those who respond a 0! I have had Verizon forever and they have become the worst in the business. and not just this App, which used to work well. Even after reinstalling it still works poorly. Oh and do not even start me on the excuses the Verizon catechism person gave me. He did not even know his own app!

If only it worked consistently. I put this on my work phone so I could get texts from my personal phone. Some days it works great, then days like today creep up. I got a few texts this morning from my wife and son, then nothing later. It this afternoon I got texts on my personal phone that didn't show up. Keep getting the spinning wheel saying it's trying to connect with the servers. When I had T-Mobile, their app was light years ahead. I consistently got texts and calls. I could even access my voicemails from the app on my work phone. I'm a sales rep, so most days it's inconvenient to carry 2 phones. The idea behind the app is great. The execution, not so much.

Decent for Texts, Poor for Calling. My job requires an on-call rotation, however I have an AT&T personal phone. I thought this app would be perfect to forward calls and texts from my work device to my personal so that I don’t have to carry 2 phones. The text Message forwarding works fairly reliably, however I call forwarding does not. It works - as long as I have the app open and in the foreground. As soon as it isn’t, call forwards shut off. I can’t imagine this is by design because the chances of someone just leaving the app open at all times, even on a secondary device like an iPad, are so slim it can’t be considered useful. Another gripe I have is that, if you send messages from the app, they only appear in the App on the original device. So if you use Apple’s built-in messages app, you won’t have a full log of your conversations.

This used to be a great app. I’ve been using it for quite some time now, and I really liked it. However for the past several weeks, it just won’t pull my messages through on either my iPhone 6 Plus or my iPad 9.7; it does seem to be working on my PC. Both devices are up to date as far as the operating system is concerned, but this app just will not work anymore. Every once in a while I’ll get a message, usually from one financial institution, but I cannot receive text messages from family and friends, and I am not seeing any other texts using this app. I’ve had to go back to using the built-in messaging app from Apple, which I don’t like as much as I used to like the Message + app. Verizon, please fix this! If you do, I’ll update my review because this really WAS a great app.

Good for texting on Non-phone devices. Texting seems to work fairly well on my iPad, but the integrated calling telephone service suddenly stopped working about a month ago. Verizon keeps writing technical service tickets to work on resolving this, but has not fixed it yet. The worst part of the calling feature not working is the repeated error messages that pop up several times a day saying calling can't be activated now. I am not event trying to activate calling and the error messages appear. Was much better app 2 months ago. Text messages don't alway synchronize with phone. This has been true with all versions in past 6 months that I have been using the app.

Annoying on iPhone. Before I downloaded the app, my family started a Verizon+ group chat. It came through as a group text. Except, despite having all of their contacts saved in my phone, the messages just showed up with their phone numbers. I know their numbers but it was still annoying to decipher. Pictures and other media would not come through. So I discovered and downloaded the app, which was a relief. It’s okay. Nothing particularly special but it works. The most annoying thing is that on my iPhone, I now receive the messages on the Verizon+ app AND in my texts. I get a double notification every time someone texts a group chat. It’s incredibly irritating. Please make this more compatible with iPhones for people who aren’t Verizon customers... there are a lot of us. Thanks.

Necessary Evil. Like most people, I don’t tend to write reviews for things I like. I also don’t tend to write reviews about things I don’t care for, but this application deserves a review. Unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot of great things to say about this app. I have lots of issues with it. I certainly consider it a necessary evil. I don’t like how it doesn’t play nice with the native messages app (which I still feel like is far superior to any other messages app out there). I have the desktop version of this application and it does not talk with the mobile version, which is a very big oversight and needs to be dealt with. It frequently displays the incorrect number of unread messages in the bubble on the app icon. The entire app feels like it was thrown together in a very short period of time by a development team that was not given appropriate resources to build a great app. Yes, I have the latest versions of each app. At this time, the only reason I haven’t deleted the app altogether is because I’ve recently started to have issues with receiving large media files from folks who do not have iPhones so cannot use iMessages. Use this app if you need to, but don’t download it just for fun.

Bad Graphics, Poor Coding, Pointless Implementation. This app looks like it was designed in the late 90’s, early 2000’s era of graphic design. Like, after the company was already bankrupt and was trying to get money again.... and ultimately failed. Using your cell phone number that is tied to the same device this app is installed in? Have fun getting double notifications from every message sent to you! Your messages app will be filled with weird convo strings that look oddly one sided, since your messages being sent don’t get sent to you via sms..... aka Verizon? Tie our accounts to USERNAMES instead of phone numbers, so you can divert messages to that ID instead of doubling our notifications. Plus, there are random crashes, odd quirks and stupid mistakes everywhere in this piss-poorly built app.

A Sufficient App. 5/5. TL;DR: All around, Message+ does what its supposed to do: send and receive messages, sync texts, maybe place a phone call. 5/5 I was hesitant to download b/c of the numerous reviews that noted issues concerning syncing across different devices/platforms. As of 8/3 -- for me, at least -- such a problem appears to not be an issue. I use Message+ on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and now this iPad Pro 10.5 (which I am using, atm, to write this review), and both devices are syncing wonderfully. One can even make phone calls using this app., but I have yet to test this out. I have no complaints.

It’s okay but more and more messages only show up on phone, not on this app. For example, when I text my daughter, I can see messages I send her on the iPad via Message+, but her responses to me are only on the Samsung Galaxy. They don’t show up here. It seems that the more I use it, the more this happens. It happens with people on different comm networks using different devices, so it can’t be narrowed down to a technical issue. I’ve even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, which made no difference. If this app was able to display ALL messages to/from a number consistently, I’d give it 5 stars.

Don’t waste your time.. Verizon should be ashamed. They don’t seem to care about making this app work top notch. Look at all the poor reviews that go back years. I downloaded this app onto my knew iPad mini 6. I thought it would be a great way to basically be able to use my mini as an alternate method to text and call via my Verizon account if I don’t have my phone with me at the time. The app just keeps failing . Some calls never go through or if they do they are poor quality. I frequently noticed that when I got a call on my main phone I never get any notification or ring tone on the iPad despite the fact that the app on my iPad is supposed to be paired with my primary Verizon phone number. Text going out or coming in are slow to arrive. And, most of all I need to constantly need to rest the app on the iPad by pairing it again with my primary phone number on my phone. This seems to happen constantly after a day or two of not using the app on the iPad.

An Embarrassment. I seldom provide reviews and recognize things happen between releases. I applaud the intent for this app which essentially is a vendor agnostic chat solution that works over SMS. It kind of does that (sometimes), but with lots of limitations and caveats. However, it’s hard for me to believe that the team who developed this actually uses it themselves. I am pretty tech savvy and I struggle with this app. Documentation does not match the features actually there and when they do they often don’t work. Great idea, poor execution, and even poorer quality assurance. For a major company like Verizon I would be embarrassed to release such an app. Actually any company/person should for something this poorly executed. Many other apps are much better, but are not as simple as SMS, but at least they work as advertised.

E gift cards being charged but not sending. We have used this app for the main purpose to send gift cards to friends and family or kiddos to get a pizza. It has worked fine for years and all of a sudden Verizon is telling me it’s going to be billed to my account before the process of sending it is complete and then the message plus said purchase error we are having trouble doing what you want to do try again later. But they had no problem charging our account this happens to us 3 times the in last month thankfully Verizon did remove the charge for the first two times hopefully they will this last time. This error needs fixed it’s so nice to be able to send the card

No blocking option. Message+ is a handy app to use when all you have is internet. I have it downloaded to my laptop, iPhone/iPad, and a bookmark on my Chromebook. I believe Verizon stopped providing the option to download the app to a computer because I haven’t been able to do it on my new desktop. I can still use the bookmark though. For iPhone users, you have to turn off iMessage if you want to see texts from iPhone users in Message+. My biggest issue is that I cannot block unwanted senders in the app. Verizon wants you to pay extra to do that plus you have to go online to do it plus the block is only good for 90 days. If Verizon was serious about reducing spam/phishing messages, it would give us this option for free. That would show that the customer comes first.

Ups and downs. I have iPhone 6S. It’s getting to the point where it isn’t notifying my when I gets texts randomly. I was excited to find this app. My phone alerts me now thru this app when I get texts, except for iMessages, which is fine. I chose not to turn off the iMessage feature on my phone. This app is great for texting those without iMessage. It says sent, delivered, read, and shows when someone is typing u back, just like iMessaging. I like how customizable this app is. Backgrounds, fonts and text bubble colors. And it is syncing between my phone, iPad and Apple Watch, which wasn’t working as it should thru the regular message app that comes on all these devices. It’s nice to be able to text people without Apple devices from my iPad too. However, this app is glitchy. It will shutdown randomly, and then you lose whatever u were going to send in a text, even pics, and have to type it all again. That is frustrating. And sometimes when I receive texts it will say who the text is from by name, and other times just show the phone number, even if you have been continually texting the same person who is a saved contact. So over all it’s an ok app. If the glitches were addressed, I would have given 5 stars.

App isn’t working properly. Recently I won’t get my messages until i open the app and there’s a 10 min delay for the messages to come. I originally thought it was my phone or service but my service was working perfectly on all other apps, amazing service ty verizon! I then put my sim in another device which has msg plus and still has the same problem:( so I switched to a diff messaging app and my messages were working normally. I definitely love the app that it saves all your messages and are able to use on multiple devices. I also love the public profile pic feature, most messaging apps don’t have that. Another amazing feature is the customization where it gives you a lot of cool features to customize your app look. But overall it only deserves a 2 star due to the fact that the main purpose of the app is to get your messages;)

Missing Critical Feature. Unable to change the notification tone. Please remember that everyone can’t hear the same frequencies. The current notification tone rarely grabs my attention, and definitely doesn’t wake me up when sleeping. (Which is bad because I have to use it for work when I’m on-call) Also, the notification tone doesn’t play long enough. The iPhone native “Alarm” tone would be perfect, and an option to have it alert multiple times until a message is read would be excellent! Additionally, the “Phone” function has to activate every time you reopen the app; after closing the app or restarting the phone, and doesn’t work properly most of the time.

False advertising by VZW: BEWARE. Setup correctly on compatible devices, the Message+ app can only receive calls on devices that originally were designed to make calls in the first place. What does this mean? Basically, unless you’re using Message+ on a calling-enabled smart watch or just another smart phone, you cannot expect to receive incoming calls on your device in a reliable manner. In fact, the only times you will receive calls in the Message+ app on a non-calling enabled device (such as iPads, Galaxy Tabs, or anything that isn’t a phone or latest-gen smart watch by Apple or Samsung) is if you literally have the Message+ app open and running as the primary app all the time. No closing the app, or letting it run in the background, and definitely no locking your device or closing the Smart Cover. So for anyone that wishes to use the Message+ app on a non-calling enabled device to be able to receive calls at any time, don’t do it. It does not work. Do not expect VZW to change this at any point in the near future.

Puttn' the "mess" back in Message+. Dear friends: if you are using Mess+ and want to have a super sweet convo with those of us not using Mess+ (i.e. iMessage etc...), you should know that it's super non-sweet to try and convo with you via this "app". It's about as undope as you can get. We receive multiple iterations of your dank SMS or MMS, 'bout mebbe every 7 seconds until, sweet Jesus, it decides to stop. Then when we reply to said dank SMS/MMS we have to deal with the our own poppn' fresh SMS failing to send. Undopeness abounds. The only way 'round this hot Mess+ is to a) switch network services (cellular-to-wifi or vis-versa) there by shedding some shadowy caching issue; b) use TWO messaging apps, one for normal messaging, and Mess+ for "the crapshoot"; or c) ugly cry. I installed it and looks hella featureful and stuff, but if it can't consistently send-and-receive... smh #uninstall #notblessed #reviewsneedhashtags

LOVE!. This app is perfectly suited for my business needs for texting. My assistant & I use this app for our main business line on each of our phones so we can both respond to customers. I love the away auto-response feature & use it for 4 different away messages that we can set date & time to turn off. There are some delays at times but overall does what we need! Another cool thing is it saves images in a gallery & so when one of the text sticker apps I used all the time disappeared from existence, I still had all the stickers I used in the gallery! Made me so happy.

No Text/Photo Backup. I have Message+ on my iPad and, as far as sending/receiving texts and photos it’s fine. The gigantic Elephant in the room is I just discovered that said texts/photos are NOT automatically backed up. One has to PURCHASE (for $6.99 per month) the ability to back up my info! Something that was NEVER EXPLAINED to me until AFTER I LOST all my text messages and photos!! Contacts/texts/photos should be automatically backed up - and it should be INCLUDED WITH THE APP....and to add insult to injury, even if I were to be stupid enough to pay that monthly fee - it still does NOT back up messages and photos!?!? Whoever designed this app should be slapped upside the head, twice!!

Unfortunate Necessity. There are far more things I don’t like about this app than things I like. I will admit that I don’t rate apps very often, but I use this app so much and it bothers me so much that I need to say something in hopes that the developers are notified and given resources to make the app better. The app takes a long time to load. It inaccurately displays the number of unread messages. I have the Mac app as well and they don’t seem to talk with each other (it might be related to the inaccurate “unread messages” issue). The app has crashed a few times. It doesn’t push all messages to the native “Messages” app. I’ve had other issues, but they have been less noticeable and less cumbersome. What I enjoy about the app is it handles large file transfers better than the native Messages app ONLY when sending and receiving files from non-Apple devices (which is why I gave it a two-star rating instead of a one-star rating). The native Messages app still outperforms this app in about 40% of those situations, though. At the end of the day - if you can live without this app, I’d recommend not even bothering with it. If you have to have it, be prepared to deal with lots of little annoyances until the developers are given the opportunity and resources necessary to fix the plethora of bugs.

This App works better than iMessage - Failure to Send. With the latest iOS release I have never had so many sms or fail to deliver to so many End Points on any OS or mobile device. In addition to other Apple and nonApple end users message failing to arrive, there were no setting to correct to get it going. No other apps or setting to adjust, with or without a vpn - on wifi or on carrier services, iMessage failed to perform. I like this device and OS agnostic app and hope you at least try it as I have used it for almost eight years on different PC, Tablet and Cell Phone OS’s and it has been the best I have ever used. I am a carrier employee, however am speaking from an end user consumer experience and perspective. Thx!

Schedule Messages. I love this app. Because I can schedule text messages. This is. great option for many reasons. The only thing I noticed on a downside is that I have not been able to do is upload my pictures to send to out. Also I tried to upload them and it is extremely slow and frustrating. Or the feature does not work. Therefore I always have to copy and paste then choose allow paste. Love the app otherwise Happy human 🥰

Decent App, but needs work. I have to update my review and reduce the rating from 5 stars to 3 stars. The texting functionality is perfect. The voice calls, however, are inconsistent. There are many times when someone calls my work phone and that phone rings, but I get no notifications at all on my iPhone resulting in many important calls being missed. Often these missed calls don’t even show in my call log in the app. When the calls do come through, about 1/3 of the time the caller can hear me, but I can’t hear them. With a little bit of work, this app can truly be incredible. ————————————— PREVIOUS REVIEW: I haven’t been this impressed by an app in a long time. I have two cell phones- an iPhone which is my person phone and a Samsung Galaxy which is a company issued work phone. I hate carrying two phones around and now I don’t have to thanks to this app. I’m able to add my work number to the Verizon Messages app and get all of my work texts through that and I can even make and receive phone calls from my work number directly through the app. I’ve downloaded the MS Outlook app for my work email and now I’m all set. I no longer carry my work phone with me and I love it! I highly recommend this app!

Glitchy!!!!!. Don’t believe any Verizon tech who tells you this is the solution to enable texting across Apple/non-Apple devices. Got this app to be able to text from both my Google phone and Apple devices. Messaging on the Apple devices is erratic—sometimes they come through, sometimes they don’t. Likewise for group messaging, sometimes secondary recipients receive the message, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes messages are delivered instantly, sometimes they are sent days later. The Verizon tech assured me it worked “perfectly”across his devices, so I brought in mine, displayed the non-matching conversation chains, and he checked all settings with no success before referring the problem to Verizon. Three days later, I received the official response from Verizon...a stock instructional video on how to improve call reception and clarity. Total fail.

Decent Overall but some Minor Annoyances. I’m using this app on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Pros: Customizing the UI in terms of the colors and shapes of the chat bubbles and and backgrounds make the app fun to use by letting you use your creativity to enhance your experience with the app. Cons: Weather someone I message uses Message+ or not, messages go through both the standard iOS messages app and the Verizon Message+ app. That means when someone messages me, I get notifications from 2 apps for the same message. I wish there was an option in the app’s settings to keep chats in Message+ separate from my standard Messages chats. Message+ is trying to be an alternative to the standard Messages app, but fails because for other people I chat with I use iMessage.

Love the auto-reply. My favorite part about this app is the auto-reply feature. I’m a freelancer and an actress, and you never know when I could be with a client or on set. And the app lets new texters know I’m busy. My least favorite part is that there is a delay in message delivery. For example, yesterday afternoon, I received a new message around 5pm, and a message from 2:30pm came along at the same time. What if it was something important? I wish the app didn’t rely on data connection either. I just had a power outage for a couple of hours, and the messages didn’t roll in until after my WiFi was back (I keep data turned off when home).

SLOWWWW and glitchy. Beware of having Verizon as your cell / iPad service provider as they FORCE you to use this terribly slow app on newer iPads. It’s dismal performance is sub-par in every way to the apple text app we are familiar with using. Each and every time I need to enter a name or phone number there is substantial lag time. The window for composing a message is small and does not expand with a larger message, so one must scroll through limited visibility. It is difficult and slow to erase a message if desired. The program often freezes and has to be shut down or re-installed. AND if you send a link for article or video in typical text app you will see a clickable icon that makes it clear what article or video is. With this app you are only able to send the url and must therefore explain in words what is being sent. If I could have given 0 Stars I would have..

Glitchy, and there is no block feature. Okay first the positives: i love having a messaging app that allows for customizable fonts, backgrounds, etc. It says when messages are sent, delivered, and read. That’s where the positives end. It is glitchy and will sometimes shut off when I’m in the middle of typing. It doesn’t always notify me with the person’s name. For some reason their number will show up as if they were not saved in my phone. I left iMessages on bc I still wanted to use it to text my friends that did have an iPhone, but I found my messages would show up twice, once in each app. I figured this was just a compromise I would have to make for leaving iMessages on. HOWEVER my biggest issue is that there are no settings to block a number, and this app does not cooperate with the native phone app and messages app. I had someone blocked on my phone and this app allowed the messages to go through. BIGGEST MISTAKE. I only got this app because VZW is requiring it to view bigger media files sent from non-iPhone users. VZW, I am deleting this app until you get your act together. Sheesh.

i love this app, but there is 1 problem. i absolutely love this app, i downloaded on my iphone because i wanted to accessorize my messaging app, yes it looks pretty good now, but i noticed something. When i message iphone users who use imessage, i can’t see their messages on the app, so then i have to go out of the app, and go to imessage to see their messages, another thing i noticed is that when you message someone on this app and they message you back, you get a notification from your original messaging app as well, please fix that, it gets annoying when i get 2 notifications per message when it isn’t an iphone user. One final thing is that when i receive a notification that someone texted me, it only shows their phone number and i don’t know who texted me until i’m in the app, which we all know that sometimes you want to ignore people, but you can’t do that here because you don’t know who it is. that’s all, thanks.

Was great on Samsung, but not on iPhone. I liked Message+ for my Samsung galaxies. It worked like a dream and I like knowing that my messages had been delivered or if they were in limbo. Message+ did not help me on iPhone: when I migrated my contacts, the two people I text most often couldn't be found anywhere in Message+ even though I have long conversations in iMessage. I have my group texts, other individuals that I rarely text, but not my two favorites who are also my ICE contacts. I do Google search to solve the problem and I can't find anything that matches what I'm looking for in the results. Even Verizon chat room doesn't quite understand what the problem is and doesn't give me results that help me restore access to those two people, who I call and text the most of everybody. I wanted an alternative to iPhone messaging because I don't like that very much and there's no information about individual texts.

Loved it until IOS 12 update. Worked great until the IOS 12 update several days ago. Now when starting it up it just sits at “waiting for network” and never connects. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app several times and have been looking for an update to the app but nothing yet. I am assuming the issue is with the app since every other app works great on my iPad except this app. Please update the app to fix this issue. I see others on the Verizon message board reporting the same exact thing. Edit: an app update came out today and has fixed my issues after IOS 12. App is working well again for me on my iPad pulling in. Y text messages from my galaxy phone.

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Used to be better. I used to be able to attach photos so easily and I don’t know what happened but every time I try to attach a image the app completely shuts down. I can only go through the gallery option which takes me to my first picture on my phone and then I have to scroll all the way down to my last photo to attach it and I can’t even attach more than one picture at a time! I she to do it separately for every picture! And I can’t even send a picture starting from my gallery app! I would select a picture to send and it just shows sending… till it said failed! Every time! I tried reinstalling the app and restarting my phone nothing helped!

Latest “bug fixes” disabled my app. Very frustrated, as I depend upon this messaging app where all of my work related pages are directed. The latest updates which occurred on June 10, 2021 now prevent my app from launching. I’ve done everything I can to troubleshoot, confirm that my iPhone has well beyond the minimum requirements for compatibility with this app, and I’ve never had trouble with it in the past. Have been trying to figure out how to get to app support and just keep getting webpages touting the attributes of this app 😡

Are you sure you want a review?. Everyday I open my I-Pad Pro. The app-self deletes itself? As soon as I go to the Apple Store & reload it? It comes right back? As if it never left. I’ve been to the local Verizon store near me. Their not very good with I-Pads. They just tell me to load the newest operating system without looking into the problem? Hence the latest issue I have with Verizon messaging. If it’s not one problem it’s another. The last issue I had was if the message was longer than a half a sentence. The keyboard would freeze up. I would have to go into settings. Reset keyboard & reset messaging. Then anything I typed in would be erased! 😤 This was a continuous problem for a year. No solutions at Verizon either. Later I found out that despite having an unlimited data plan? I needed to plug into Wi-Fi to load the newest operating system? Leave it plugged in overnight even if the battery was a 100%? Even though the default on my I-Pad was set to load automatically???🤬 Really? Why do we need to make things soo complicated?

Ummm.....something has happened.....?. Don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve been using this on my Note 8(and all my other phones) with no problems, and on my iPad for years. But lately it has been crashing EVERY time I try to use it on my mini. Apple problem......obviously. Such a shame because it is my go to and I love it. UPDATE: It STILL crashes.....ONLY on my iPad. Love it on my phone....but it is crappy on my iPad. Now I cannot be using my phone.....leave the room and pick up my iPad to continue the texting conversation I was having. Seems like now I can only use my phone with this app. This is just.....wrong!

June 10 Update Crashes on iPad. Your supposed bug fix has caused this to stop working on my iPad which is running the latest iOS. It tries to open and then closes on the screen…but is seemingly open in the background. When I try to open the background, it flashes for a bit and then closes on the screen again while staying open in the background. So frustrating when it was working fine and a supposed update makes things worse!!! Why is there not a ‘Restore Prior Version’ option for each App either on iOS, the App Store or each App as that would allow me to go back to the prior version until this supposed update gets fixed?

Still so buggy!. This app is still buggy as of Aug 2023. Been this way with multiple bugs for 10+ years. You would expect an app as important to the core business to be top notch, but it isn’t. If I have something on the clipboard and go into Message+, it continually asks me to allow paste if I select “No”. Forces you to select “Yes”. Advanced / Voice calling rarely works. If by chance you can register advanced calling on a particular day and happen to be using to a VPN, the call max length is 2 minutes. Drops every time. Some old text conversations have new/unread badges on them that can’t be cleared.

Crashes. Traveling for work.. Two weeks later and still waiting for you to fix this. Won’t open past opening Message Screen. You are creating a lot of very angry customers. Roll the previous update back until you figure this out. This is ridiculous. I am traveling for work and had to update other apps. This one updated and now I can’t get it to even open on my iPhone. This app is for a second line so I don’t have to carry two phones. If you know iPhones, I cannot “clear cache” or “install older version.” Verizon, are you fixing this?

Pretty great 👍🏽. I think this app is very useful, I can use it on my iPad fourth gen. and iPhone 7 to text Samsung/LG/Google phones and it works without a problem, I haven’t yet experienced any delays that all those people are whining about. So I completely recommend it. I can now send stuff perfectly fine to my many Samsung clients and get videos and pictures without having to send them through email to see. I haven’t yet tried to call through my iPad yet.

4/5 for me. For what I use this app for its pretty great. I have an iPhone and my husbands is Verizon so we can’t send videos to each other or they’re blurry. I use app for that AND the schedule messaging is perfect! I forget to text people back and iPhones don’t have scheduled messages as far as I know but this app allows me to still text anyone from my contacts. Only problem is I won’t hear or see the any new notifications unless I go and look myself. Whatever. 4/5

Needs major improvements. Your app is not working properly. Constantly giving me problems and freezing. I get that spinning timer problem all the time and only way to get rid of it is to force close. I can't open any messages or this will happen. So frustrating! I can not see any videos that are sent I just get a paper clip sign. How stupid is that. Fix you app. It's been like this for months I was hoping it would be fixed by now but I'm frustrated to the point I have to say something. I have iPhone 6 and it's up to date on everything so the problem IS NOT MY PHONE. Please fix.

Nice App. Having an iPhone and iPad, I was stuck using their standard “Messages” app with no options but I like this because you can input different options. I do have a question though. After you send a message, the app shows your message with a “thorn” attached to the dialog bubble but it then disappears after a time. Does the disappearance of that “thorn” mean the recipient has read your message or what?

Needs Some Work. This is awesome how you can link the iPhone and iPad. It allows you to call land lines and numbers that aren’t iPhones. But every time I place a call it drops me after about 4 minutes. And not all the text messages that go to my iPhone go to the message+ app. Some still go to the regular app. I leave my phone at home with my husband because he is disabled and health is poor. So I take my iPad to work and places I go. Sometimes it lets me answer incoming calls but it won’t connect me to the call. This could be an awesome app with a tweaks. Thank you Verizon!

It’s decent but there is 1 thing missing. It’s a decent messaging app. Has 1 click Report Spam which works for emails sent via text which iPhone message app does not offer that option when you send a spam message to 7726. It only lets you send phone numbers. But there 1 feature on the iPhone message app that I wish Messages+ had which is ability to block caller. You can mute a conversation but it’s not the same as blocking. Fix this and I’ll improve the stars. Thank you.

Great messaging app!. I’ve used this as my default messaging app for years and it keeps getting better! I am really excited about some of the new features but really sad that you can’t search directly in a conversation anymore, and that media is all grouped together instead of broken out by conversation. This is a big reason why I use this app. Can we have that functionality back?

Waste of Memory. This app doesn’t do anything promised when installed on an iPhone. It will not send any texts either via cellular or WiFi. I have searched all the FAQs I can find and have zero reason as to why it won’t work. It is, however, now hijacking my ability to have text conversations. One out of three incoming messages lands in this app. The other two in my primary app. Nothing I send from this app is delivered, despite “sent” and “received” notations. As far as I can tell, there is no reason anyone should use this app as it simply doesn’t work from my fully updated and current iPhone. If it continues to hijack my conversations, I will be deleting it.

This has working absolutely amazing last few weeks!!. All the sudden I’m actually able to receive incoming calls from my Verizon number using this app while I’m abroad!!! Literally the most perfect thing ever. It was great being able to make calls and receive sms messages. Although some sms verification ones don’t seem to appear, but that’s not a big deal since apple message forwarding is the bomb. TL;DR: I don’t know what changed but now I can not only make calls but receive them too!!

Low functionality on PC. If you’re hoping to use this on your PC, be very cautious. PC version of the app doesn’t mesh well with contacts. I used Verizon support to get contacts transferred to the app on my PC and we got maybe half, maybe, transferred over. Of those, not all the messages come through on my PC which was a big deal for trying this app. I’m text heavy for work and would be way faster using the PC instead of switching between PC and phone for every message. I get half the contacts, and only half of their messages and end up messaging partly on my phone and partly on my PC.

App no longer works. Only giving 1 star because today this app has failed me. I don’t know what changed last night, but when I tried to use my app this morning to text a friend it required my phone number and a scan I’d. I complied but now all I get is a white screen with Verizon on it. I’m no longer able to receive or send messages. There is no way to set or customize this app. I tried deleting and reinstalling...it just doesn’t work. I’ve lost everything, contacts, texts, photos that had been sent. This app worked on my iPad for 5 years...now there’s nothing. To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement.

Useless App Service. This app is full of promises according to their marketing at the store and website BUT IT’S NOT REALLY WORKING PROPERLY, HIT AND MISS, while I’m traveling to places that doesn’t have a direct Verizon coverage, but always on the WIFI. I’m a paid customer but the tech supervisor told me that it’s how the way it is, hit and miss. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn’t work. I’m really frustrated with Verizon about this app. Might as well not offer it. And their customer service and technicians made the problem worst. They’re trying to solve one problem but it will turns out to be a big problem. They don’t know what the consequences on every steps they do. Blood boils.

Someone used this to monitor me for two years. This is an awful app it has caused me so much anxiety and stress I did even know the app was watching my phone my phone was grabbed and this pulled up some how and the barcode was scanned by another and my messages and contacts we able to view pics everything I had no privacy for two years and I just found out when I went to Verizon for the second time and this rep really took care of me found out I was being watched I wanted to throw my phone away This is evil in the hands of a bad person it’s scary and I am going to police station

Great app for the iPad mini 2. I can now receive and make calls with message + If you are with Verizon you're in good shape. Within the app is a toggle switch for calls, it's part of the 9-1-1 feature. When you flip the switch you will see a gray phone on the left bottom. Hit it and you get a dial pad. It runs off you're cell, so when the switch is activated you're cell will go to message mode and you're iPad is now youre cell.

Ugh so annoying. Out of the blue, in order to receive video from my son, I had to download this app. All other text, and even some of the video’s come thru my regular message app on my iPhone. Now all messages and videos are coming thru on both apps, this one and my original iPhone app, just every so often a video won’t come thru to my original app. Him and anybody that has something other than an iPhone, I get their messages simultaneously now on both apps. It’s annoying. We both use Verizon as our carrier but as of about 2 weeks ago Verizon must have decided to start pushing their app. I don’t like it, it annoys me every time.

Works...sometimes. The concept is wonderful, the execution is not. I’ve flirted with this app for a few years, and every time I get frustrated and eventually end up uninstalling it. I work on an ipad our of necessity, but prefer my S8+. That said, it’s not always practial to have both devices on my person. I need to have messages syncing (most of my work is done via email or text). Messages sometimes don’t sync between devices, unread message count is constantly off on my ipad (currently reads 1483, which is more of an annoyance than a functional issue), and the app can sometimes be laggy and and a smooth operator like I need. Verizon, please get this right. If you can get all 8 right in the 10 ring you’ll have a winner.

Helpful if it worked better. Since I have multiple mobile phone numbers, this app makes it easy to manage my texts from another phone. However, it is not always reliable. I almost never receive texts from financial institutions and websites texting me verification codes. Also, my texts between friends are spotty, sometimes with delayed sending or receiving and sometimes not sending or receiving at all.

Does not work well. I like this app because it allows you to forward your messages to multiple people with a click of a button; it completely eliminates the tedious process of copying and pasting the same message over and over again. However, sometimes when I send a message, it won’t deliver so the recipient never sees my message. I know another person using this app that has the same issue. After some research, I’ve tried the “Offload App” option to clear cache but this also did not work and my messages still did not “deliver”.

I Keep Coming Back to It...!. There are little idiosyncrasies that can drive me crazy, yet there’s so much to love about the app - the options for setting up beautiful backgrounds, contact specific sounds, smart groups, etc. Yet, for all it does well, my husband does not receive the messages I type on it whenever I’m texting him from my Windows laptops/pc, while everyone else does seem to receive the messages I type from the same devices to their phones. Go figure!

Absolutely useless app. The only reason I downloaded the app is that a Verizon subscriber sent me a video from their phone and that was the only way to view it. I’m able to share photos and videos with anyone regardless of whether they have an iPhone or not except for Verizon users. At first I thought no big deal. I’ll just use the app to download the video to my phone, then save it to the camera roll so it can be shared with others. Well, that’s not the case. The useless app doesn’t have a way of doing that or ability to share the media so the only thing I can do is watch the video on my phone. 0 stars would be the correct rating. Too bad such option is not available.

Good, needs some work. Update: My notifications work now, but I still occasionally miss text messages that I know were sent because I have 2 phones. I get them on my other phone. Not sure why this is happening. Added a star, but am hoping they can fix the missed messages issue. Previous post: I don't seem to be getting notifications on my phone, even though they are turned on. I guess this was as if the most recent update. Not sure what's going on. I've rebooted my phone and uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and also ensured notifications are on. Quite frustrating.

App works great, until it doesn’t. I have been using this app for 4 years now and have mostly loved it because I do not have a smart phone and it allows me to view messages from smart phone users. I like very much that it syncs messages on both my tablet and laptop, however, since the most recent update for the tablet has now rendered it inoperable. The messages show up as pop ups but when i try to open the app it won’t. The app is still running on my laptop or else I would be mad.

Good Concept; Poor Functionality. I really want to like this app as it worked fine on my old moto x (1st gen). Currently, I have the iPhone 7 & the best I can say is terrible...lol. Initially, it worked fine however it! (da app) began to adjust the volume which caused me to change my volume settings for the phone. Shortly thereafter, I stopped getting real time notifications for text messages and calls. Now, if I use the app I have to open it to get the messages (text or calls), strange considering this is a messaging app... This message is for Verizon: I am a long time customer & would appreciate you taking time to fix the bugs associated with this app for the iPhone. I did not experience these issues on an old Motorola.

At first I wasn't impressed. Made beef was trying to send a schedule message and sometimes have a car if I was searching the contacts list and I press to contact call Mont to magically or only when I searched it it wouldn't or something like that I was off but it is the best app across platforms I've found so far for messages I'm done with this review now I don't want to take any more words I'm waiting for the little sunlight to my dad that tells me I've written words to review

Unreliable and clunky. Takes forever to open/load/sync. I have a bunch of the iOS graphics/animation garbage turned off so my device performs reasonably well, this app is just poorly/inefficiently coded. Also does not reliably share messages across platforms as advertised. Sometimes it shows both incoming and outgoing texts on both the iPad and Pixel XL. Sometimes it only sees the messages that were opened on or sent from that specific device. Hence I have two mismatched and incomplete threads. Then a friend sends a group message... and it tells me to download the Verizon Message+ app. I am IN the Message+ app. *facepalm* C’mon Verizon. It’s a texting app. More efficient coding, with an emphasis on reliability. Fewer widgets and “features”, more reliability and speed. Get on with it already.

Incredible App!!. With this app, I can basically turn my tablet into a phone!!! I love the scheduled messages because sometimes I forget to text someone about an important manner and this app solves it! I also love the personal messaging options like chat bubble colors and cool background wallpapers for the chat. It's so EASY and FUN to use. This app, I would say, is in some ways better than the apple messaging app. Thank you Verizon!!!

Horrible. They only reason I installed this app was because I friend sent me several videos from our vacation. Initially I could watch the videos although there was no way to save them or share them on social media. I went to view the videos today and now all I get is an error message “Sorry, Integrated messaging service is currently only available to consumer mobile numbers”. So at this point I can’t access the videos and since there was no way to save them they are essentially lost to me! This app and the fact that the videos were unable to be saved is beyond ridiculous especially when there is so much technology available. I have never had any problems saving media from any other carrier.

June update just crashes.. I tried to give app feedback directly to developers by clicking on the developer site link below. Page not found. Then I tried to give simple app feedback on the Verizon messages+ web page. No feedback option. So it is here for all the world to know that for me, at least, the latest mid-June update just crashes for me. Reboot iPad, still crash. Worthless app for me at the moment. When it's working it's not too bad, but I noticed recently it has a serious delay sending some of my texts. Was hoping the latest update with the fix.

Does the job but extremely slow. I use this app to receive text messages on my ipad when I don’t have access to my phone. It does the job but the app is extremely slow and clunky, so I only use it when I’m really in a pinch. One annoying issue is that it doesn’t mark messages as read when I have read them on the phone. So if I don’t use the app for a while I have hundreds of “unread” messages listed. A “mark all messages read”button would be useful; as it is now I have to go and manually view every single conversation for the app to tag messages as “read,”and that takes much longer than it should due to the slowness of the app.

No good. Let me start by saying I had used this app in the past when I was with Verizon. I came across it and it says in can be used with any carrier with a valid US number. So I downloaded it. And guess what it doesn’t work with straight talk even though straight talk uses Verizon towers. I guess I should have known more false advertising from Verizon the very reason I left them was there dishonesty in the fees they try to hide and shock you with when you got the bill. I guess some things never change. Just a word for anyone who might try it it doesn’t work on non Verizon phones. I would give it less then a one star rating if I could. And maybe Verizon would like to correct their false advertising.

Like. I enjoy using this method of keeping in touch with friends and family. Wish I knew how to use it better then I do like when two words and I want to split them it takes both words away or else I have to back space the last word away and then put space in and rewrite the second word all over again. It will not let me put the curser between the two words and hit spacer bar to separate them. This is the main thing that bothers me.

App crashes. Try to use the e-gift feature and it just crashes the entire app. Plenty of people are having issues with this for over a week now. Talk to verizon and of course a CSR can’t resolve it. (I wouldn’t expect them to be able to) then with all the comments on here you’d think that either Verizon or the developer would give some insight on what’s happening. Either it’s being addressed and a update for the app will be available soon to fix this or that Verizon is doing away with the e-gift feature. Which would be great if there’s an update to fix it or at least let people know that the eGift feature was being retired. Any news about this would be appreciated.

Really useful and really buggy. I've used message + for years and it is indispensable. With it, I can receive and generate texts (that go out on my phone line), from my ipad (WiFi only) and also from my desktop. Great stuff. But it is buggy as heck, especially on the desk top PC. The main weirdness of messages+ is that it will often indicate there are 2, or 5, or even 8 unread messages, when there may in fact be only one. Strange but not serious. On the desktop, synching can be problematic. But it works and is more than 95% reliable so I'll keep using it.

It stinks. It absolutely infuriates me that I have to use an app to send messages to individuals who don’t have an iPhone or don’t use iMessage. I used to be able to send messages just fine until one day, I couldn’t. No one at Verizon seemed to know what the problem was - they reactivated my line and all of a sudden it seemed to work. Well, it happened again, and they suggested (in an almost threatening manner) that I should be using the Verizon messages app instead. I don’t want to use an app I have NO NEED for, when my iPhone X is perfectly capable of sending messages on its own. Thanks but no thanks for the app Verizon - I have zero interest in using something that is completely unnecessary.

A rotary telephone is a better way to communicate. I have never rated an app. It either works well or it doesn't. I don't have time to both expressing my opinion, which means close to zero. However it's 1:00 AM, my wife shot me down and I can't sleep. So here is my first review. This app is by far the most awful development I have ever seen. It looks like it really wants to do some cool stuff and it tries so hard, but it just can't get past the initial intro and keeps buffering. A 3rd grader could have done a better job. Whoever the mindless wonder is that approved the release must have taken their SAT exam with a crayon. I feel I am owed money for my time. Fix this garbage or take it down. Have a nice night...

This app gets me mad 😃. Worse messaging app ever. Faulty. A few years ago I was said the text functionality was great, but the voice was fault. Well, guys, it’s all faulty. Yes, I have the most updated version. No, i barely receive messages on it, and no, my outgoing texts never send in a timely manner. Why does the App Store have a lower rating than the play store? Not sure. Perhaps less time was spent in developing the iOS version of this app? Why do we rarely get updates on this app? I don’t know. I hate this app. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. Someone said it was a necessary evil? That is the best way to put it. But evil feels like an understatement at this point.

Peace of junk. This app Message+ is a peace of useless junk, This app does not work at all, I took time trying to find a very great high quality and fully trusting working text messaging app that’s free and high quality and that works and that won’t let me down and that will work when needed. I took my time installing this app and it does not work at all. Nobody gets any of my messages at all and the features are very glitchy also and the whole darn app is glitchy or has technical issues. I’d give zero stars if I could. Please fix this darn Message+ app or I will delete the app and never use it again and will go with another free text messaging app.

after update app crashes when opening. The app wont open on my ipad mini4 after i just installed update today. only reason i give three stars is because it was working fine (mostly) before that. glitchy because some messages i got in the app and not the phone, some on the phone but not the app, what can i say? but otherwise fine, it did the minimum of what i need it to do, which is forward my phone texts to my ipad. please make it work again.

Worthless cr-app.. My son sent me a video he took of me. We both have Verizon. It won’t let me download the video, from messenger. So I tried their stupid link. Can’t download from there, either. Some sort of error. So I downloaded the app. It wants to be my primary messaging app. It wants access to my entire life. When I granted it, just to get the awesome video, it started moving all my old messages onto itself. Slowly. Glitchily. With poor quality. I still can’t access the video I want because I have to wait for it to download several years worth of conversations with everyone I know. I don’t need to use a faulty messenger app. Why would I? This is a complete piece of garbage. I can’t WAIT to delete it.

Slow app. Slow notifications, slow media loading, slow delivery. Slow slow slow. Sometimes it won’t load until I open the app, then I start getting all the messages in a bunch. This app does not work for live communications. This app is not reliable when you need to know what’s going on in real time. The only one thing I like from this app is that it shows the names of each sender, and it sorts their bubbles in different colors. It helps find the messages quicker when you’re in a group chat.

THIS APP IS THE ONE APP I CAN’T DO WITHOUT!!!!!. There are apps that you use casually and apps that are a 1-touch wonder, but this app (if used properly-check out terms so you don’t get in trouble) is the only one I use ever single day of my life. I find it much easier to type on my iPad keyboard at a high WPM instead of my cell phone where I hunt-and-pick for my chosen keys. I wish you the very best and don’t forget to take it with you when you upgrade. Stay healthy and have a wonderful day.

Latest Version Crashes - Don’t Update!. I have an iPad 7th Gen running IOS 14.6. When I updated the Verizon Message + app to the current version, I can’t start the app on my iPad. I see it starting to come up but then it stops and goes to my Home Screen. I can still see messages coming in on the banners but I can’t bring the app up to see the messages or respond to them. I tried rebooting my iPad but it did not correct the problem. My wife has the same iPad as I do and sees the same problem so it is not with my device. DO NOT UPDATE TO THIS VERSION! Keep your current version until Verizon fixes the bug and comes out with a new update.

Was good, recent update went backwards. I’ve been using this on several devices for years. Lately, when I get a notification that I have received a new message, I open the app and the new messages do jot appear at the top of the list. I have to scroll down through all of my old messages in hopes that I will see the blue notification on a message, so I will know who sent me something recently. If this is not fixed soon, I will move on to another solution. It’s just too much work.