Galaxy S8 Oreo text message sound

[JW Clevinger]

I update my Galaxy S8+ to 8.0 Oreo last night and my custom text message sounds are gone and I can't find where to set them at. It no longer shows up on the contact details where it was before. Anyone else have this issue or know an easy fix I'm overlooking?

 

[tube517]

The feature was taken out w/Oreo.

Look around the forum as there are numerous posts about the issue.

Your options are:

1. Switch to a 3rd party app like Textra that has this feature.

2. Use one of the ancient apps that can do this for you. These apps are very old so who knows if they still work and are still supported.

3. Hope and pray that Samsung will fix. (Notice I said hope and pray, meaning who knows.)

 

[keshav9]

I update my Galaxy S8+ to 8.0 Oreo last night and my custom text message sounds are gone and I can't find where to set them at. It no longer shows up on the contact details where it was before. Anyone else have this issue or know an easy fix I'm overlooking?

This would help you.

 

[Redwolfian]

Found it! For days I've been looking for the settings to customize my incoming messages sound. On my S8+ and S6 you could easily go into the Menu (top right) while in "Messages" to change "Backgrounds" and sounds for incoming messages. For whatever reason, that is not as easy. Tina at TMobile and I found this by accident just now. So this is how to make your incoming message a custom sound (I use Zedge).
1) Go into Messages
2) Tap Menu icon (Top Right)
3) Go into Settings
4) Tap Notifications
5) Tap New Messages
6) Tap Sound option and there are te default sounds and hopefully your downloaded sounds
Different way from making your Incoming Message sounds than prior Galaxys.

Sidenote
Go thru same steps till you get to "Sound" tab and above it is an "Importance" tab which I see no reason for. It lets you choose 4 different options on how important any incoming messages are..."Urgent, High, Medium or Low." Really? Wouldn't all incoming messages be important and if not, put your phone on silent. I must not be that sociable to categorize incoming messages. Sound, sound and pop up, etc... Guess someone thought it was important enough to place on Oreo. Hope this helps with customizing incoming message sounds.

 

[NancyinWI]

I've just spent 2 hours trying to figure out where my custom text message notification tones went. FINALLY found an answer. Why the heck did they take this feature out? Always used to know who was texting me by the tone. No longer an option.
Where do I go to complain where I'll actually be heard?

 

[Kimmie99]

My husband and I are BOTH not happy with this change either! What was the push - you'll be happy with notifications again - NOT ONE BIT! FIX THIS PLEASE! We both had specific notification sounds for different friends/family so we knew just who was texting us but not anymore! This isn't making notifications much happier, they are making them worse!