Hello,

As you may know, Signal decided to drop SMS support in a near future...
It seems they consider it as legacy and don't want to bother with it anymore...

But here in France, SMS is still in use for most of us, and for man usages (bank 2FA, package notification delivery etc...)
I would be very happy to avoid SMS usage, but must consider 80% of my contacts uses SMS, or WhatsApp...

WhatsApp is a NOGO for me of course, or I would not use Signal...
But SMS is still mandatory, unknown contacts or family not familiar with technology don't want to bother with a dedicated app...
I successfully made some friends and family install Signal some month/year ago with SMS integration argument "don't worry, you won't have to bother with another app, you will still use only one app... blabla..."
And trust me, for some like my stepmother, now Signal wants to drop SMS support, I feel bad... I will now need to explain them the situation... and hope they will understand it, and what will change for them (If they are still OK with it... Most of them will probably simply drop Signal...)

Signal does not seems to bother with handreds of messages on Twitter/Github and there board asking to keep SMS support

But, as we can't do anything about it, we must consider an alternative for SMS support.
Looking at what currently exists for SMS, to be honest, the default GrapheneOS SMS app is ... "simple".

I saw some comments about apps like TextraSMS wich seems to be very handfull, but don't really know if it is safe for privacy concerns...

Some others recommand Google Messages (really ?) with its RCS integration...
But looking a bit on articles about it I found some concerns :
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-phone-app-text-messages-call-logs-google/

May I ask users opinion here about our best options ?

As a reminder just to close a useless debate. I CANNOT ignore/avoid SMS usage, again, here in France, it is still widely used for many stuffs... and YES, I will still use Signal the best I can... even if I feel betrayed / backstabbed by their choice after years feeling like and abassador for them praising them...