Samsung is pulling the plug on its Messages app this month, and if you don't manually move your own text conversations to Google Messages before the cutoff, they're gone for good. You paid for the device. You typed every word. A corporation you gave money to is now telling you that your data has an expiration date — and the clock runs out in days.
This is the deal Big Tech keeps offering: you own the hardware, they own everything on it. Samsung announced the shutdown back in April but hasn't specified the exact July date the app goes dark. A Samsung representative didn't respond to a request for comment, according to CNET. What we do know is that once deactivation hits, only messages to emergency services will work on Samsung Messages. Everything else — your conversation history, your RCS threads, your archived messages — vanishes unless you carried it over yourself. And nothing transfers automatically.
Samsung's rationale, as Android Police reported, is a move
