Main features of Beeper Mini The service that allows Android phones to send texts with Apple’s iMessage service appears to have gone down in its first week of operation.
The app’s post follows reports from Beeper Mini users who were unable to send or receive messages on Friday. X account The team said it is currently investigating why the iMessage integration no longer works for sending and receiving texts. When I myself tested his Beeper Mini app on Friday, when I tried to send a text, the message was not sent and I got the error “Search failed on server: Search request timed out.” message was displayed.
Beeper Mini’s ability to allow users to unlink phone numbers from Apple’s iMessage network may also be disrupted during the outage, with affected customers missing texts from iPhones trying to contact them via iMessage. There is a possibility. Apple’s own unsubscribe tool is accessible from Apple’s website and can be used by an Android phone owner to regain access to receive texts from his iPhone users via SMS and MMS. Masu.
Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky did not specify the cause of the outage in an email to CNET, saying only that there was “overwhelming interest” in the app. Migicovsky suggested that Apple may have blocked Beeper’s access. Apple did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.
“If it’s Apple, the big question is, if Apple really cared about the privacy and security of its iPhone users, why would it eliminate a service that allows iPhones to send encrypted chats to Android users? I think the question is, are we going to try?” Migikowski said.
The new app was released Tuesday and touted itself as having “reverse engineered” a way to access the iMessage network without using Apple hardware or requiring an Apple ID. However, the service is not affiliated with Apple and at launch will support many, but not all, of the text messaging features available to users using iMessage on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. doing.
The Beeper Mini itself will eventually incorporate other text messaging services and will use a $2 monthly subscription to fund its development. Beeper’s original app, recently renamed Beeper Cloud, which interconnects multiple chat networks and uses Mac relay to connect to iMessage, is not affected by the outage.