From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
      
   > VanguardLH  wrote:   
   >> Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Andy Burns  wrote:   
   >>>> VanguardLH wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I get a lot of those OTP or 2FA messages when trying to login.  I get a   
   >>>>> notification, tap on it, takes me into the Messages app, and I see a   
   >>>>> list of these type of messages, so I pick the code from the topmost   
   >>>>> message.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> For me, the new messages are at the bottom of the list, and I get   
   >>>> focussed towards them, so I don't see the issue you describe, once in a   
   >>>> blue moon I do "delete all messages" for the 2FA sender to clear the   
   >>>> clutter ...   
   >>>   
   >>>   Not only that, but the 2SV (not 2FA) code is often already visible in   
   >>> the 'closed' notification. If not visible, you open the notification,   
   >>> the code is now probably visible. If not visible, you tap the   
   >>> notification, you now see the list of recent activity (for all numbers),   
   >>> the most recent notification, i,e, the 2SV one, *is* at the top.   
   >>>   
   >>>   All-in-all totally standard, ever since at least Android 4.   
   >>>   
   >>>   What you should *not* do, is open the *message* directly from the   
   >>> notification, because then it is - oh horror - at the bottom of the   
   >>> list, but, as you say, still in focus.   
   >>>   
   >>>   All-in-all totally standard, ever since at least Android 4, so I   
   >>> wonder why VanguardLH has this 'problem' with his new phone, but not   
   >>> with his old one.   
   >>   
   >> I merely asked if there was a sorting option.  From everyone's response,   
   >> the answer is No.   
   >   
   >   Yes, but you endlessly whined about it - especially to Stan - in the   
   > context of getting a 2SV code via SMS and having no end of trouble   
   > finding the right message, instead of accidentily stumbling on wrong   
   > ones. *That* 'problem' is, as I explained, the mobile phone version of   
   > PEBKBAC.   
   >   
   >   AND, as you yourself found out, there's a very good reason that -   
   > other than in e-mail -, the newest SMS message is at the bottom, because   
   > that's where the reply box is.   
      
   And since I'm only interested in replying to the last message, *I* would   
   prefer the new-message input box to be at the top of the window instead   
   of at the bottom.  Configurability is not an option with this text apps.   
      
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