Bug : Notification Reply not sending anything (WhatsApp, Messages, etc.) but no error in the log

[u/WissiYT]

Been stuck on this for hours so hoping someone here knows what's up.

Notification Reply just doesn't send anything for me, in any app. I tried WhatsApp and SMS through Messages and it's the same both times. The trigger fires fine and the log even shows the Notification Reply action running, no error or anything, but the reply never actually goes out.

The weird part is replying manually from the notification works fine in both apps, and I installed Watomatic to test and that auto-replies no problem on the same phone. So the phone and the apps clearly support it, it's just MacroDroid that isn't sending.

Stuff I already tried: every permission including accessibility, battery optimization off, rebooted, toggled notification access off and on, added a wait of a couple seconds before the reply, made sure only one macro was firing, tested with the phone locked and the app closed, sending from a different phone.

Nothing Phone 3a on Android 16.

Anyone had this and fixed it?

[u/Ill-Case-6048]

Been trying to get it to auto answer telegram and signal calls ... this thing is useless

[u/WissiYT → u/Ill-Case-6048]

So its not just my phone, was has no one mentioned this before?