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November 19, 2014

mysms for iPad Supports Actionable Notifications

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With the introduction of iOS 8 Apple introduced a cool new feature: Actionable notifications. Apple has renewed their notifications and added access for third party apps like mysms. With the latest update for mysms for iPad we took the opportunity and also added actionable notifications.

Actionable Notifications Are Now Available for mysms for iPad

For our iPad app you need to consider two different types of notifications: Those for messages and those for calls. All actionable notifications are available for banner notifications, in the notification center and on the lock screen.

If you receive a text message, a notification banner will appear that lets you directly mark the message as read (e.g. if you can read the entire content of the message in the notification) or it opens the conversation when you click on “Reply”.

Notification Center

When an incoming call reaches your phone, mysms for iPad will notify you. With the new notifications you can directly answer the call to start it on your phone or mute the call without opening mysms.

Banner Notification

For missed calls we provide the notification options to call the person back on your phone or to mark the notification as read.

Lock Screen

In the notification center and on the lock screen you just swipe left to access the additional settings, on the banner you need to swipe down to make them visible. Have you already tried these actionable notifications?

November 14, 2014

Never ever lose your messages again | mysms Premium

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Have you already heard about mysms Premium? Recently, we introduced two of our Premium features to you: Backup & restore and the call feature. Today we’re going to focus on our SMS archiving plugins.

In addition to the mysms cloud, you can back up your messages in your Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote or Email account. With these services your messages are backed up forever.

Archive your messages

We’ll now take a closer look at all services you can connect your mysms account with. Once you connect your mysms account with one of these services, your new incoming and outgoing texts will be archived there.

Connecting mysms with Dropbox helps you to better manage your texts on any device. Dropbox is a file-hosting service that offers cloud storage. When you enable this integration in mysms, you will find your new incoming and outgoing texts in your Dropbox. After connecting your accounts, your messages are saved in a separate mysms folder (“Apps/mysms”).

With our Google Drive extension you will never lose a message again. Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service of Google. By activating the Google Drive extension, you can save your texts in your Google Drive account. Once connected, all new conversations will be forwarded to your “mysms” folder on your Google Drive.

The Evernote integration allows you to back up your text messages. Evernote is a cloud-based note-taking service. After connecting your mysms account with Evernote, you can manage your SMS there. All new messages that reach or leave your phone will also be saved to your “mysms” notebook in Evernote.

The email integration allows you to manage all your text messages in your email account. Connecting your personal email address with your mysms account gives you the opportunity to forward all incoming and outgoing text messages automatically to your email account. You will find all incoming and outgoing texts as a separate email. Just enter your email address in the mysms settings.

Here’s how to get started:

Go to the settings in mysms on your Android phone and click on “SMS Archiving”.
Subscribe to mysms Premium.
Connect your mysms account with Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote or your Email account and enter your account data.
From now on you will find all new incoming and outgoing messages in your chosen service.

The archiving plugins serve as an additional storage where you can manage and search your messages. It is not possible to restore your texts back from Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote or your Email account to mysms. If you are interested in restoring your messages, just take a look at our backup & restore feature.

November 14, 2014

Export your texts to one single file| mysms Premium

Posted in apps, messaging by mysms

mysms Premium includes powerful features that enhance your texting life even more. We already introduced the backup & restore, the call feature and the SMS archiving to you. Today we’d like to explain the SMS export feature.

Safe your messages in one file

If you are in need to have all your existing messages available in one single file, the SMS export feature seems perfect for you. You can back up all your messages that are saved in the mysms cloud (not only new ones) with a few clicks. This file will be sent to your email account. By contrast, our SMS archiving feature constantly saves your new incoming and outgoing messages to your Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox or Email account.

Here are the steps you need to follow to export your SMS inbox:

Open mysms on your Android phone, go to the settings and click on “SMS Archiving”
Subscribe to mysms Premium
Type in your email address and submit it
You’ll receive an email from mysms with a .CSV file. This file includes all texts that are available in the mysms cloud

With SMS export feature you have all your texts right at hand in one single file. You can search for specific messages and access them even offline.

October 15, 2014

Save your texts in the cloud and restore them anytime | mysms Premium

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mysms Premium includes powerful features that make your texting life complete. We would like to take a deeper look at our awesome Premium features and will start with Backup & Restore:

Save and secure restoring of your messages

With mysms you have your messages right at hand anytime and on all your devices. From the time you have successfully registered for a mysms account on your Android phone, all your existing messages are saved in the mysms cloud and, of course, also new ones will be added immediately. This means your messages are always kept in sync and up to date on your smartphone, computer and tablet.

But what if you lose your phone or need to do a factory reset? No worries when you use mysms. We know that your messages are very important to you. That’s why your texts are secured in the mysms cloud and can be restored anytime. You only need to install mysms once again and login with your existing mysms account as well as the same Google account. If you also got a new number, you can change it in the mysms settings after the restore of your messages has finished. And voilà you will find your last 1,000 messages again on your phone and, of course, on all your other devices too.

This feature is exclusively available for mysms Premium users. Activate mysms Premium in the mysms settings on your Android phone to get started right away. You’ll find more information on mysms Premium on our website.

October 21, 2013

Setting a new direction for our future mobile developments

Posted in apps, mysms news by mysms

Here at mysms, we always strive to offer you the best texting experience on every device that you use. At the moment we support seven different platforms and distribute mysms in a variety of app stores.

For mobile phones we are currently providing mysms for Android Phone, iPhone and Windows Phone. During the last year we have seen fantastic growth for Android Phone and iPhone clearly outperforming Windows Phone. Therefore, we shifted our developments in this direction, to focus on our best performing platforms. Also, when we started with Windows Phone we were planning to support sending and synchronizing SMS messages, as we do for Android Phone. However, due to restrictions of the operating system there was no possible way to implement this feature. As a small team who aims to reach very high quality standards in all our apps, it was clear that we need to take a decision for Windows Phone.

As a result we have decided that we won’t further release updates to mysms for Windows Phone and will remove the app from the Windows Phone Store. However, if you have mysms already installed on your Windows Phone you can continue to use it.

For similar reasons we will remove all mysms Android apps from Amazon App Store, Androidpit App Center, SlideME, Samsung Application Store and sms.at Smart Zone in the course of this week.

We are excited to be able to concentrate even more on the platforms where we see the greatest potential for mysms. In the upcoming months we have some great features coming up. Stay tuned and feel free to contact us here.

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