So I've just activated and transferred over everything from my S22 and for some terrible reason, Google Messages has split every single text thread I had into separate strings. One will be the original thread, but they ripped out every text from non-RCS numbers AND images and put them into a separate group chat with yourself and that number they'd come from.
How can this be fixed? It's extremely frustrating.
under advanced settings, at the bottom, there is a setting called phone number. by default it says unknown. I assumed for some reason I should enter my phone number there. when I did, I started having the problem discussed above. when I went back and deleted my phone number from that setting, the problem disappeared. I don't know what that is, or why it asks for a phone number, but don't put your own phone number in there, or it'll start creating group chats for you, and segregating your GIFs to that new group chat. If you delete it, it will just recreate it. So go back and delete your phone number from that phone number setting at the bottom of advanced settings.
