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Weird test message notification from app this AM
Hi! This AM I received two weird test messages from the TMobile app. The first read "test" for the subject then "test' for the message. On an old device, I saw a second test message come in as well - same subject and text but also had a little blue folder with black up arrow inside it.
Is this happening to anyone else?
pretty weird, I’m curious about it too!
I am seeing same meesage “test”, was wondering why
Same msg here...Western Colorado. Not sure what it is but seeing it reported from Honolulu to Buffalo New York...
I received the same notification. I just bought a new phone, still waiting for it to ship, but I was thinking it had something to do with the fact that I'm trading this one in. Now, I'm thinking maybe they are doing testing on all their lines.
I just posted the same thing….had 2 notifications and one said "test". Sounds like many are getting this same thing.
Thanks for the quick response.
It may be completely benign due to internal product testing and they accidentally hadn't disabled global messaging. I saw this once with another product support software, a long time ago, and for them it was a test.
Or it may be a spoof. Might be worth contacting TMobile directly through official phone numbers?
Or devices?
It probably is testing, though I'm wondering how many got multiple notifications and if any of those had the little blue icon with up arrow in it next to it. It's very small, but one I've not seen before. I've not seen from the expected documented sources, though I spent 5 minutes looking. Maybe they are testing a new feature.
For those who got this message, did you recently upgrade to a newer phone? (Sounds like one other person above had...) It's possible the message was sent to those who did upgrades to newly released phones (e.g. Samsung S22 line...) This might make sense as I turned on my tablet earlier and did no get a notification. Only from my S22 and the phone being returned that I was about to reset.
Happened to me. 2 messages. 1 test message. The next with the upload file icon on it. Looks like it either uploaded or downloaded something. The upload icon is more likely to be telling the initiator the file was uploaded, than telling the phone user something was uploaded when the user shouldn't, apparently, be seeing it.
Same thing happened to me this morning. It was 2 notifications that each said "test" one of which was a secure folder requesting a pin. Super weirded out. But I'm sure there is a logical and hopefully harmless reason for it. Last week there were 2 system updates that got pushed through and I did both.
