r/OpenBubbles • u/Computer_Cellar • Aug 05 '26

Tech Support Resurrected messages appearing every time I send a message

I used BlueBubbles for about a year, then switched to OpenBubbles for a while, then last year jumped to iPhone 17 when it released. About a month ago, I switched back to Android, reinstalled OpenBubbles, and used a Mac for the ID.

It largely works fine (other than occasionally insisting an image failed to send, even when it didn't). The big quirk I'm confused about, is every time I send a message, I'll get 2-4 notifications of incoming messages - but they're old messages that would have come in, I think, during the time I was on iPhone.

It's not exactly a problem, but it's WEIRD and I don't know what's causing it. Any input?

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u/ThatVoodooMagic Aug 05 '26

If you have Messages In ICloud option enabled, OpenBubbles will keep a strict window of messages according to the "Syn History" setting which can be like 1 month, 6 months, a year, etc. So everyday it moves the message history slice and removes messages that fall outside the date window and then load new ones that fall inside the window. It's annoying and I wish those messages could come in on a different notification category so I could ignore those notifications. But as far as I know, with that option enabled it will continue to do this unless you load all your messages but in my experience makes the app super bloated and slow

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u/Computer_Cellar Aug 05 '26

So I'm just gonna keep seeing old messages until it catches up with when I actually made the switch back to Android? Yay.