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Why would I want to use BiteSMS??
- Thread starter Gix1k
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Bite SMS replaces the stock app. What BiteSMS provides is more functionality like a window that pops up and lets you respond or call the person. It also adds a photos from your contacts next to the listing. I basically hid the Apple messaging app and only use Bite now.
A little Google and you can learn a whole lot.
http://www.bitesms.com/
Thank you, but I have been to that site. I asked for input for people who have had experience with it.
I have it, what do you want to know? The site tells you what it does so I am not sure what specifics you are looking for. Formulate a question and I'll answer it.
Here is their features list.
http://www.bitesms.com/main/more_features
You can even try it for a few days. Download it and give it a go.
I can respond to a text without leaving the current app or game I'm in. That alone is worth it for me
I keep reading people say it "replaces" the stock app. How so?
So if I have no apps open and my wife sends me a test to my phone number, how does bitesms prevent the stock app from opening and open up the text itself.
Also, how does it prevent the stock app from opening with iMessages and deal with those?
If it truly "replaces" the stock app, that is.
So if I have no apps open and my wife sends me a test to my phone number, how does bitesms prevent the stock app from opening and open up the text itself.
Also, how does it prevent the stock app from opening with iMessages and deal with those?
If it truly "replaces" the stock app, that is.
I hear an echo!!!!
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It doesn't "replace" it per se. What it does is work in parallel with it. Once you install BiteSMS, you can hide the stock app or you can continue to use the stock app. Both applications use the same data store for the messages so you can read them in either app.
When you've got Bite installed, the stock app doesn't show notifications. You can open the app yourself and see that they're there if you really want to. If you get a notification and tap/slide it to open it, it'll open Bite not the stock messaging app. Bite handles SMS, MMS, and iMessage just as the stock app does. Bite essentially takes over everything the stock app does, all while preventing the stock app from showing notifications.
When it comes down to HOW it does it.. I have no idea, I'm not a software engineer. Just know that it does, haha.
I am one of the minority that actually prefers the stock messenger to bitesms..I really don't see the "draw" with it, and yes I have tried it.
I do realize that you can respond to a text without leaving an app or a game, but you can by clicking the banner/responding to the text then app switch back to the current state of your game/app. Just as easy IMO
I do realize that you can respond to a text without leaving an app or a game, but you can by clicking the banner/responding to the text then app switch back to the current state of your game/app. Just as easy IMO
Bite has tons more usefull features than the stock messages app.
If you're jb I don't see why you wouldn't want to use it.
It's a must have for me.
If you're jb I don't see why you wouldn't want to use it.
It's a must have for me.
What about iMessages? I ask because about 90% of my messages are via iMessages.
I don't care, you guys can negative my post all you want, I was just giving my personal opionion.
Are you able to change the color of the bubbles in this app? Sometimes I see people with gray and blue bubbles and others with green and gray. Is there any type of I that I can use to change the colors to anything else?
BiteSMS is what every jailbroken iPhone user should first install.
It's a wonderful app with a lot of features that Apple should have implemented themselves
It's a wonderful app with a lot of features that Apple should have implemented themselves
Gray and blue is iMessage. Green and gray is regular SMS. That is stock iOS.
You can theme your bubbles to whatever you want when jailbroken, not within this app though.
It's not about returning to the current state of the app. Not having to leave the app you are in atm and responding to the text is so much easier.
right, I don't want to be completely interrupted by a text in my apps.
a banner across the top is fine, a full bubbled text in the middle, not so fine
Lol with bitesms you can also get a banner. With the stock app you don't get a notification of how many text you have on the status bar either. By tapping that notification you can also reply to text without ever going into the messaging app.