Sunbird relaunched its iMessage app for Android users after three years away
Sunbird Messaging has relaunched its Android app, allowing users to access iMessage features like blue bubbles and reactions. The company claims to have addressed previous security vulnerabilities through end-to-end encryption and by not storing user passwords.
Why it matters
This app addresses a long-standing interoperability gap between Android and iOS, though it raises ongoing questions about the security of third-party messaging bridges.
Sunbird Messaging is back on the Google Play Store, offering Android users blue bubble privileges in iMessage complete with reactions and high quality videos for $2.99 a month. Apple and Google have made cross platform messaging better in recent years with support for RCS, but Android users can still cause issues in iMessage group chats, like breaking reactions and replies.
Android Authority reports that after Sunbird shut down nearly three years ago due to security issues, the company says its new setup addresses those, and that “Any message moving through our infrastructure is protected in transit and released once it’s delivered,” while media you send or receive is deleted “typically within 48 hours and never longer than 72.”
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