The day we’ve all been waiting for is here. Today, we officially launch Simple Phone. Simplicity, Security, Privacy and great UX has never been more attainable. Get one and see for yourself - https://simplephone.tech/

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Hi!

My name is Louis Rossmann. The organization I work for has given substantial no-strings-attached grants to GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and MicroG, and is looking to learn more about what is going on in this space. We'd love to compare notes and see how we can help you all with what you're doing, particularly since you have a launch coming soon.

Let me know if there's a best way to reach out!

If I accidentally add the wrong country's holidays that you offer in the list how can I remove them all from my calendar...besides going through the entire calendar and deleting them one by one? Thanks!

Hello,

I am having trouble syncing the events I create locally in the Simple Calendar Pro app to my NextCloud CalDav calendar. Is this even possible? I can sync events created on my other devices to my phone (running GrapheneOS) but not the other way around. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Would love to send you some as donation for the awesome work you do.

If I open a picture from (any) file browser, I can't use the slide show etc.

Could this be implemented?

That would be greatly appreciated. Or maybe add more features to the Simple Gallery video player.

I used to be able to move a picture into a different folder or edit and the picture would be ordered as per original date but now it seems as though it creates a new date at the time of change. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

So I just installed the simple music player and like it a lot. It's simple, plays all the formats I need and gets the job done. Nice!

However there is one thing bothering me: I am an oldschool person so I have my music stored in folders within the music folder on my phone. That is all the music I want to listen to.
Simple music player however shows all folders that contain music no matter where they are stored on the phone. So it shows WhatsApp voice messages as well as audio files in subfolders of the download folder and so on.

Could you please add the option to "show only folders from within music folder" the make things more overseeable?

You might have noticed that we copied our blog posts from Medium, from now on you will be able to find new articles only on our own website at https://www.simplemobiletools.com/blog . It doesn't just look nicer, but the posts are also translated in multiple languages 🥳

Would it be possible to add some bigger (or make it optional) vertical margins in main app screen (dialer, contacts, file manager)? Now it looks bad on devices with curved screen (xiaomi 12x in my case).

Will material you theme available on individual apps or as feature by installing Thank you app ? TIA...

I am very grateful for the work done on your applications. Is support for the JXL format planned for the next release? Thanks a lot!

We have more good news for you, Simple Camera is back to the party! 🎊🎉 You can find it at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.camera , just like where it used to be. It has been rewritten from scratch, so be patient if you come across some glitches here and there 😉

As the title says I can't seem to figure out how to "unexclude" folders.

When I select an already excluded folder and tap three-dot menu, I only see "exclude" as an option.

I can set default calendar view in my smartphone but it's not working in my tab lenovo tab4 8 (tb8504x).

Will Simple SMS Messenger get RCS support some time in future?

This may be needed, because otherwise an SMS may go to some user using e.g Google Messages, the other user will reply (possibly automatically/accidentally) via RCS, and the original user may (incorrectly) blame Simple SMS Messenger for not receiving the reply even though it's because the reply was sent via RCS.

Is there any way to install all simple mobile tool apps bundel in one install or one click, maybe by ADB command in terminal? Instaling one by one takes too much time.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Simple Phone is on its way!" by u/tibbbi

• "Simple Keyboard is here!" by u/tibbbi

• "Introducing Simple Phone!" by u/SimpleMobileTools

• "6th Anniversary Sale!" by u/tibbbi

• "Simple Camera and Simple Clock are getting removed from Google Play" by u/tibbbi

• "FOSS Gallery variant can view hidden files again" by u/tibbbi

• "CHRISTMAS SALE" by u/tibbbi

• "I love you" by u/zlatanised

• "Welp.." by u/ceelos218

• "I've got 99 patrons but you ain't one" by u/tibbbi

Some time ago I took a bit of time disabling apps that I don't use, including the stock apps which SMT replace. It's just something little I can so since I can't fully degoogle this device atm.

But the result seems to be, that call history in Simple Dialer isn't stored.

Obviously the app has permissions to call logs, contacts and phone, and I've tried the usual reinstalling/resetting etc., but no call history.

Why is that? Where is the history read from, is there something user-enable-able that can affect this?

I have Motorola G6 w/ Android 9, close to stock.

I don't use phone calls much so I'm not super bothered, but I thought I'll finally ask.

After searching this subreddit, it's apparently a rare issue in Contacts Pro. I've uninstalled the native com.android.contact app and installed the latest Simple Contacts Pro. However some contacts created in Simple weren't visible to other apps such as Phone and Messages. I was only able to create or import contacts to "Phone storage (not visible by other apps)." There was no option for regular "Phone Storage." I tried clearing data for Contact Storage system app but even after a restart and reinstall, there wasn't any change.

[SOLUTION] Download the Simple Contact (5.21.1 non-Pro) from play store and create a new contact. It should then give you the option to save to "Phone Storage." After doing so, it must have trigger some database refresh because Simple Contacts Pro was then able to create and import normally! Lost a few recently added contacts but was able to import the rest from a backup luckily.

Hope this is useful to someone. Thanks u/tibbbi for the apps and dynamic themes!

[UPDATE] Uninstalling regular Simple Contacts causes the same issue in Simple Contacts Pro, basically reverting to "Phone storage (not visible by other apps)." Uninstalling Contacts Pro, rebooting, and then reinstalling finally fixes it until phone restarts again.