I have a Umidigi A3 running Android 8.1 when I get a text message it shows up as 'now' in the conversation so I have no idea when the person a actually sent it. I turn my phone off at night and in the morning find a few messages obviously not all just sent as I turned the phone on but can't see any options to fix this?
Android Text Messages Time Sent?
figarow on 27/05/2019 - 07:39
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Solution is to not turn off the phone at night, leave it on silent so it will receive messages and record the time of receipt.
Or just "View details" in Android Messages to see when it was sent.
Text messages actually have metadata that contain information like when it was sent. You'll need to download an app to retrieve it, something like Android Messages or Textra.
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The "now" is when the message was received, not when it was sent.
The "time sent" isn't sent within a text message itself and your phone wouldn't know when the message was actually sent from the originating phone because you've turned it off.