Beeper Mini team says a fix is ‘coming soon’ and promises to extend users’ free trials

The Beeper Mini group has apparently been working across the clock to resolve the , and says a repair is “very shut.” And as soon as the repair rolls out, customers’ seven-day free trials might be reset to allow them to begin over contemporary. Beeper Mini was launched earlier this week, and appeared an particularly promising entrant because of its distinctive strategy to bridging the iMessage-Android hole. The app, reportedly the results of a 16-year-old’s work to reverse-engineer iMessage, routes messages instantly by way of Apple’s personal servers, making it safer than a few of the different choices on the market.

However, solely days after its launch, Beeper Mini customers on Friday discovered that they might not ship and obtain messages, sparking questions on whether or not Apple intervened and put a cease to it. In an replace posted on social media, the group stated it’s deregistered customers’ telephone numbers from iMessage whereas it really works to repair the problem. That will not be the tip of the rapid complications brought on by the outage, although. “Annoyingly, the iPhone Messages app ‘remembers’ that you just had been a blue bubble for 6-24 hours earlier than falling again to SMS,” the Beeper Mini group wrote, “so it’s attainable that some messages is not going to be delivered throughout this era.”

Whereas Beeper says a repair is coming quickly, it might nonetheless have a better battle forward if Apple truly was behind the shutdown. The chat app prices $2 a month after the seven-day free trial and gives end-to-end encryption for messages despatched between Android and iMessage customers. In an announcement to Engadget yesterday, Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky stated, “If it is Apple, then I believe the most important query is — if Apple really cares concerning the privateness and safety of their very own iPhone customers, why would they attempt to kill a service that permits iPhones to ship encrypted chats to Android customers?”