r/LightPhone

I'd like to downsize (upscale?) to a LightPhone from my iPhone, however I need 2FA authentification app to log in to various work systems.

Does LightPhone currently support any such app?

I imagine with it a whole number of people in Tech would consider switching.

I’ve been a light phone user for nearly 3 years. For reference, I am currently using the LP3 and have been for the past four months. I used the LP2 for a couple years before that and never had any issues sending things before. This is not your typical post here from someone who is new to the ecosystem and who has not disabled iMessage or RCS from their phone number.

Over the past two weeks, I have been completely unable to send links or photos to other people. I saw somewhere in the subreddit that within the past few weeks, Google has implemented something new where it might be affecting RCS severely? Has anyone else been experiencing this? Very concerning if this may become something permanent or long-term. Hopefully it is just a bug that can be remedied. Otherwise, I’m concerned about the long-term viability of this device.

I'm curious if anyone else has had this happen. I'm based in Australia, and randomly bumped into another LP3 user while waiting for the lift. It was such a cool, surreal moment. We chatted about going light, including modifications and workarounds.

Anyone else had an IRL Light Phone moment?

Friends, I love the Light Phone. I have my Light Phone 3 on US Mobile and using the t-mobile network. is there a way to use the T-Mobile digits feature to use the same line on multiple devices if they are both on the US Mobile t-mobile network?

I loved LP2 and LP3 worked well for a while. I've used these phones for years. But I have to give it up. Its a function of the RCS issue with Google + the phone being, well, dumb.

Google just rolled out some major updates to their messaging platform and the day that occurred I had sooo many issues. No longer receiving group messages, having to teach people how to send SMS instead of RCS - which didn't work for people who just don't understand technology. And then on top of that the web messaging app for google lost a lot of its great functionality that I loved it for.

I can't be teaching people about RCS vs SMS. I can't start every single group thread. I can't go through all my current threads and explain to my massive family (I'm one of 8) that I need them to delete the thread and start over. This is 2026, people start messages all the time. People want quick and easy, not a whole technology education lesson every time they try to text me.

I wish I could just turn off RCS and deal with it but I can't. The messaging it affects ranges from highly important people like my MIL (who watches my child sometimes) to my boss. It's just not acceptable.

I'm actually very sad about this.

I hope Light continues to work hard on this issue so that RCS isn't what keeps people like me, very loyal loving fans, from using their product.

I see a lot of posts here and on other subs about RCS and WhatsApp being “absolutely vital“ to have on a phone. What I don’t understand is why I don’t see more people bothered by the fact that Meta and Google essentially own messaging across the globe. With some exceptions, they have made the world dependent on their services and no one questions it? New phones have to play ball with them or they can’t sell? What?

Maybe I’m the weird one because I’ve never used WhatsApp and I don’t care if my phone has RCS, but I think it’s wild that this is allowed.

I think we should shift focus from expecting phones to have these services to deciding it’s not okay that two of the largest corporations on the planet have that much control over communication. The Light Phone can’t have RCS because Google says so, and that means a bunch of functionality breaks when texting other types of phones? That’s not okay.

And you can’t convince me that Meta and Google aren’t somehow stealing information. I wouldn’t trust those two companies with anything.

I’d go back to emailing before I’d use WhatsApp, that’s for sure.

I’m making the switch from an iPhone 13 (Verizon plan) to a LP3 in the next week. I’ve seen so many posts on here about issues with texting and I’m trying to gauge what is a carrier issue vs. what is the LP itself…

I’m leaning towards switching away from Verizon to a Light Plan. Those of you that have Light as your carrier: have you had issues with group texts or failed sent or received texts in general?

Last question: I’m ignorant on this but it seems different carriers can have different levels of photo quality (via texting) in addition to call quality, etc. Is this true and if so, how does the Light Plan rate?

I have the Light phone 3 and have been using it for 9 months. Love it, however am very frustrated. I can't seem to figure out how to export videos from the phone to my computer. There's not a forward to email function like there is for images taken on the phone, and I wasn't able to find any info on their website about it.

I even tried plugging the phone directly into my computer and wasn't able to upload that way either. I have Windows 11 if that matters.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

I have been using the LP3 since May of last year and it has worked great for what I need from it, in most cases. There have been a host of minor bugs and glitches, but they have been workable and not disruptive. I also disabled iMessage last March before I got the LP3

However, recently I have been told multiple times by multiple people that when I am in a GC, those people do not receive some of the texts that get sent, not just by me, but by anyone. It is odd, some people will get them, and others won't, and still others will get the texts hours after they are sent.

Additionally, this afternoon my wife (on an iPhone) has stopped receiving texts from me. I have no idea what has happened. I haven't toggled any system settings and neither has she. Calls are going through, but not my texts to her. Although, my texts have the timestamps indicating delivery.

Thoughts?

Edit: I use Mint Mobile.

All of the sudden, none of my sms messages are going through.

I seem to recieve messages just fine, but whenever I send a message it looks like it went through, but it never actually gets delivered to everyone ive asked.

It happened suddenly. I sent someone a text, they responded, and then I sent another text and they said it never came through.

Now none of my texts to anyone go through even though the lightphone shows it as being delivered.

I tried rebooting lightos, resetting my sim settings, restarting the phone, taking the sim out and back in..and nothing.

I've had LP3 since first pre orders and all sms has been fine.

This is extremely frustrating and I have no idea what's going on