Bumwin3
I agree with this, it is the most annoying aspect of secure texting, the need for which seems so obvious to us.
My family and I were using Signal and Wickr, until Wickr changed. Then we all migrated to Session, and Signal sort of fell out of use.
There are only two of us with pixel phones, and I am the only one on GrapheneOS. The rest are iPeople, and they have had trouble with sending photos and notifications. One has trouble at work, I suspect due to the antics of her IT people, but we have no idea how or why.
I strongly suspect that were I not the patriarch, they may not have all gone along with any of this. I have four friends on Signal, and one who refuses to use secure texting. There is very little communication with him.
For whatever I may be worth, that is my/our history. We are not wizards or geeks, we just don’t want our correspondence sitting on someone’s server, in the clear, ready to be read at the whim of some “authority”.
I’ve seen how almost any statement, no matter how innocuous, can be interpreted differently, or distorted in meaning, to ever be comfortable with my texts being read by anyone who has the power to ruin my life.