Nothing Chats, an app for using Apple messages on Android, has been removed from the Play Store

Nothing Chats arrived last week, promising to bring Apple messaging to Android. Logically, without Apple authorization, using third-party application technology, and forcing users who wanted to use it to provide their Apple IDa very dangerous topic.

In fact, the Nothing app was a privacy nightmare. Not only was the app not end-to-end encrypted as promised, but it was also quite easy to access other users’ image files since the app saved them as plain text.

And not just images. Sunbird currently has inventory Over 630,000 media files via Firebase, including images, videos, PDFs, audio and more from users. Not so much on Sunbird servers, but on third-party servers.

Privacy issues may arise with Nothing Chats

It makes sense that this would throw a wrench in the company’s plans after a massive campaign that even saw Nothing’s CEO post a video saying “Sorry Tim,” a reference to the Apple CEO. And given privacy concerns, Nothing Chats was removed from the Play Store by the company itself:

We’ve removed the Nothing Chats beta from the Play Store and are postponing the release until further notice to work with Sunbird to fix a few bugs. We apologize for the delay and will do the right thing for our users.

Press Secretary for nothing 9to5google

Given this move, it’s not very clear whether Nothing Chats will return to the Play Store anytime soon, especially if, given this situation, it can fix privacy issues before Apple ends the ability to use its technology in third-party messages. .

Moreover, Apple has announced that it will use the RCS protocol in messages, which will mean de facto compatibility between Apple messages, Android messages and third-party applications that accept this technology.

Only time will tell if Nothing can solve all the problems with Nothing Chats and if it can once again convince users to download the app, which the company itself had to withdraw due to privacy concerns.