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May 30, 2014

How to change the font size (Android phone) | quick tip

Posted in mysms quick tips by mysms

With mysms there a lot of great features to discover. One of the latest features we added is the possibility to resize the font. We integrated this option directly in the mysms Android phone settings.

Resize text font in mysms

In case you’re unhappy with the standard font size, you can easily enlarge or minimize it. Go to the mysms settings on your Android phone, scroll down to “Other settings” and tap on “Font size”. On the next screen you can choose from the sizes small, medium and large.

We hope you like this improvement!

September 12, 2013

Give mysms mirror a dark style!

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Probably you have already heard of our app mysms mirror. It’s the newest member of our application set that will fit perfectly to you, if you’re using two or more smartphones. For Android we provide you with a dark theme, which you know from the Android phone or tablet app.

Use the dark theme for more personalization

mysms mirror displays your messages from one phone to another and helps you to better manage your messages from two smartphones. So even if you don’t carry two phones with you all the time, you will not miss any of your messages. With the next update it will become even better, as we’re going to notify you about missed calls from your other phone.

To better distinguish between the mysms phone app and mysms mirror or to simply give mysms mirror another style, we provide you with the mysms mirror – Dark theme. Installing the theme is as easy as always:

1) Install mysms mirror on your smartphone:
2) Click on menu to open the mysms settings
3) Choose the submenu “Theme” and select mysms mirror – Dark Theme

A short hint: Using this theme will also help you to save on battery.

Finally, we’d like to remind you quickly how to set up mysms mirror:

1) Install mysms on your Android phone or iPhone you want to mirror and create a mysms account. This will be the account that you use to mirror your texts.

2) Install mysms mirror for your Android phone or iPhone to display your messages on your primary phone and log in with your previously created or your existing mysms account.

Don’t forget to tell us what you think about mysms mirror and the theme in the comments 🙂

June 20, 2013

Give mysms a wooden look (Android phone)

Posted in mysms news by mysms

Can you remember the theme voting we had a few weeks ago? The Chrome theme won, closely followed by the wooden theme. Some of you wished the Wooden Theme to be implemented as well, therefore it’s time to announce this news: mysms – Wooden Theme is available in the Google Play Store.

Personalize your mysms app

The use of the wooden theme is another great possibility to personalize your mysms app. It let’s your mysms app shine in a picturesque look on your Android phone. AND it is for FREE 🙂

We assume you know it already, but we’ve got other great looking themes for your Android phone:

As a reminder, here’s how to use the themes:

Click on Menu to open the mysms settings
Choose the submenu “Theme” (under “other settings”)
Select “Find more themes” to open the available mysms themes in the Google Play Store
Install your favorite one
Go back to mysms and open the submenu “Theme” again
Now you can choose from the themes you’ve downloaded recently

Download it from this link and let us know what you think in the store reviews!

May 7, 2013

Widgets and Popup – Have easy access to your messages

Posted in mysms news by mysms

You know, we are working hard to provide you with an amazingly easy and fast texting experience –not only on your smartphone, but for all your devices. One thing that a lot of you requested was the provision of different widgets and pop-ups for Android. Since the popup and the widgets are now available for both Android phone and tablet, we’d like to have a deeper look on it to show you the different functionalities.

Access your messages via widgets or the popup

Widgets – Have the most important messages always right at your hand

Android phone and tablet

The 4×2 widgets are available for Android tablet and phone. These widgets are the best, if you want to have your messages always right on your fingertips. On both you see the number of unread messages and you have easy access to compose a new message as well as to the message view in the app by clicking on the message or conversation. In addition they are available in light or dark theme and can both be used on the lock-screen (> Android 4.2). However, our widgets differ in the following way:

mysms (Messages)
		The settings of this widget let you choose, whether you want to display the messages of all or only a specific contact. You want to see the unread messages only? No problem, because there is also an option available for this. Moreover, you can mark messages as read by tapping the check box.
mysms (Conversations)
		Ever wanted to have your conversations directly on the homescreen? If so, this widget might be perfect for you as it shows all your conversations (requires > Android 4.0)

Android phone

For Android phone there are two additional 1×1 widgets available. These widgets hardly need any space on your homescreen, but will make messaging much faster:

mysms (Icon)
	The “mysms (Icon)” is quite similar to the usual mysms app icon. However, the important detail of this widget is that it shows an unread message counter on the top right-hand side. This is the widget you might already know from our previous versions. Update November 12, 2014: We recently added the unread message counter to the regular mysms app icon. That’s why this widget is no longer available seperately.
mysms (New text)
	Basically, the title here says all you need to know: Tap on this widget to open the new message view and start composing a new message without opening the app first.

Popup – Directly reply to your incoming messages

Android phone and tablet

We’ve released a completely revised version of the pop-up for Android phone recently and now also offer the same experience for Android tablet. The new popup not only shows the last incoming message of a contact, but the whole conversation. So you can scroll through your messages without opening the app. If you want to answer the incoming message, click on the input field to open the message view. Moreover, as you are used to from the widgets, it displays an unread message counter and you can decide whether you want to use it in lock-screen. The color scheme of the popup depends on the theme you choose.

If you haven’t done so, try the different themes and tell us what you think about the new widgets and popup!

April 11, 2013

[quick tip] Personalize the mysms app for Android phone

Posted in mysms quick tips by mysms

Are you already using our latest mysms version for Android? We received a lot of positive feedback regarding the new features and the redesigned standard theme – thanks so much! Beyond providing you with a cool new standard design, you can personalize mysms with three different themes: Dark Theme, Tron Theme and Pink Theme.

Use the new mysms themes!

In case you haven’t recognized how to make use of these themes yet, we’ll show you how to do it:

Click on Menu to open the mysms settings
Choose the submenu “Theme” (under “other settings”)
Select “Find more themes” to open the available mysms themes in the Google Play Store
Install your favorite ones
Go back to mysms and open the submenu “Theme” again
Now you can choose from the themes you’ve downloaded recently

Moreover, if you think that changing the color scheme and the general appearance by using themes is not enough, you’ll find an option in the mysms settings (“other settings”) that allows you to set your individual wallpaper for the message view. Of course this setting is available for the standard theme as well.

Please note: We’ve received some feedback from users who have experienced issues with the updated Dark theme. So if you’ve been using the mysms Dark theme with older versions of mysms, make sure you update both the general mysms app for Android and mysms – Dark Theme. Otherwise, the app isn’t displayed properly and the settings won’t be shown. After installing both updates, everything should work smoothly.

We would like to provide you with an additional theme soon. But we need your help for this. We published our suggestions in our latest blog post on Monday, so leave your vote for your favorite one here!

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