Ryan Hoover

Phoneys - Troll your friends by putting words in other people's texts

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Ryan Hoover
So troll. My dad's going to get so confused. 😁 h/t @sarahintampa for this find.
KerryBodle
Does this work in group chat? Can I make my own stickers? Fantasy Football season, so this could get really ugly! Ha
Adam Howell
@liquidchickenqq Hey Kerry! Yes, they work great in group chat. Yesterday several people suggested the ability to make their own phoneys. And at first, I thought it was a GREAT idea. But, one of the things I worked hard on with the current sticker pack was keeping them very positive and light-hearted to prevent abuse. I didn't want anything in the sticker pack that could be used to offend or make people uncomfortable. After thinking about it a lot, I've decided that letting people write whatever they wanted would create a lot of possibilities for abuse. So I'm not going to do it :/
Charlie Dewitte
The reviews on the app store aren't too stellar. Mismatched fonts & placing issues.
Adam Howell
@maximumhq Man, tell me about it. I feel bad, but well over half of those reviews are people not able to wrap their heads around the simple fact that if you put one of the stickers over top of someone's gray text on YOUR phone, that doing that will make it show up over top of the blue text of the receiver on THEIR phone. I'm not sure there's anything I could do within the confines of a sticker pack to fix that fundamental misunderstanding of the joke.
Charlie Dewitte
@ahow 15 second video tutorial on website and App Store (: consumers aren't the smartest
Shawn Kirsch
@ahow @maximumhq I think this is the common conundrum of users using the app, vs developers making the app. It's about making sure they don't go down the wrong path in the first place.
Ashutosh Singh Rawat
πŸ‘πŸ‘ you took Stickers and really thought out of the box! Well done. πŸ‘ 😎
Nitesh Mishra
Love it
Elizabeth
This is exactly, no more, no less, but exactly, as cute as a button. @rrhoover @ahow
Jordan Sztern
Ooh... this will get interesting. So many people to troll ;)
Skyler Hair
I usually don't like pranks/trolling but this is pretty funny and light-hearted. +1
Andreas Dias
I liked the idea, but it seems that they're easily discernable from real texts as they have text in the bottom as per the reviews on iTunes I guess
Amol Patil
@andreas_dias Yea that's my concern too although some of the reviews were unreliable. People think that the colors are wrong and bubble direction inverted but it's actually correct. It needs to be inverted. Not sure about the text at the bottom though and the size of image and font. That would be a giveaway.
Heidi Helen Pilypas
@a_patil @andreas_dias - that's right. The thing is, it looks incorrect on your side but it will look correct on the other person's side. People don't get how iMessages work.
Adam Howell
Thanks a lot for the hunt, Ryan!
Rahul
I have started trolling people with this already 😁
kevoh
lol! 😏
Ramy
Launching soon!
Such a great concept, but when I tried it, it sent to the wrong side - didn't work. I probably did something wrong, but it wasn't what I was hoping for :-(
Adam Howell
@ramykhuffash Ramy, you're not the only one! Make sure you're using them like stickers, so actually "peeling" them off, and then dragging them to cover the entirety of the other person’s text. If you're just tapping and sending, it will send no the right side and not look right.
Cem Carak
This is very ingenious people!! Maybe as a feedback, I would say if you can make it so that the fake message deletes itself after a "while" or X number of messages sent afterwards that could be good so you have the actual conversation history too because what if you are trying to remember what was in that specific bubble? just a thought. At least some way to reverse it in case you need the original text back.
Adam Howell
@cemedericarak Thanks Cem! If you tap the "i" in the top right of iMessage, you'll see all the Images in that conversation. You can then long tap on any sticker you want and delete it. Hope that's helpful!
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Abe Storey
I love it. Texting will never be the same.
Adam Pokornicky
Hey guys...this is a pretty funny idea but I am confused with the sizing of the bubbles. They dont match realistic the size of natural text bubbles for 1 and 2 line messages.. You have several 2 line stickers that are half the width of a normal 2 line text message. it looks really awkward. Here is an example: https://cl.ly/0e351a2g3X2d Am I doing something wrong??
Adam Howell
@callmethebear Hey Adam! I tweeted this the other day to try and help explain: https://twitter.com/ahow/status/.... Basically: stickers are square, iMessage chat bubbles are not. So Phoneys works best on short texts, so you can cover them up 100%. There's also this new way of using them that I discovered today: https://twitter.com/ahow/status/.... Hope that helps!
Heidi Helen Pilypas
I bought it and I love it. I am just sad that Apple might be pulling it. I wanted there to be an "I love you" bubble so I could go, "awww, thanks."
Stephane
My friend got me today with that! He said at my place "You are my hero". Then he responded "Thank's". Then I said I never wrote that πŸ˜‚
tini wini japa neezy
Have been trying to purchase this the last few days. App is still showing in app store au but only today it advised this item is no longer available. :(