This will not be possible as a confined app.
You will need a background service that listen to incoming sms and forward it.
I'm not sure if such app can be allowed in the openstore, but here is a few things to know.

First create your background service, it could be in standard python if you are familiar with.
Ofono is the service that emit notifications when new incoming sms, it uses dbus.
api can be found here:
https://github.com/rilmodem/ofono/blob/master/doc/messagemanager-api.txt (old repository but sending and receiving sms still like that )

AI can help you with a minimal script.

then when your service seems to work, you have to create all the plumbery to install/remove/run it, you can find an example with battery-saver app: https://gitlab.com/lduboeuf/battery-saver/

Updates 2026-03-17

After being ported to debian since last year, the new backend & carddav integration is in preparation for utnext.
It may takes some times to properly package things but i don't think that some weeks is a lot since this feature is expected by some since 10 years

i'll let you know

Bluetooth contact sync will still be missing.

I

@kristatos said:

I only received the clear-signal but not the alert-message itself.

What do you mean by " I only received the clear-signal but not the alert-message itself." ?

Like Ratchanan reported on the Volla 22, the "presidential alert" did not worked ( it should not needed to be subscribed in theory )
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11888/my-ubuntu-touch-devices-participated-in-thailand-nationwide-cell-broadcast-test

@pparent said:

Hello everyone,

I figured I would make videos about Ubuntu Touch, to contribute spreading the word.

I'm thinking about making videos to present my applications, reviews/demonstration/tests of the system in general, and possibly videos where I explain why I'm using Ubuntu Touch, and how I got to it.

Here is my first video presenting the application Maps exporter:

English version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR0eqz7wpyM
French version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOJkiSa28Ss

This is still quite experimental so if you have feedback on how to improve the videos for the next time feel free to do so!

Congrats for this iniitiative

said:

@DJac said:

@lduboeuf thanks. it is done.
i will reporting after usage.

After 4 hours : Clearly better. even with whatsnews.
After 24 hours : the probleme seems solved. thanks @lduboeuf !

I had a crash 3 times yesterday ( teleport and/or messaging-app)... i'm testing on 24.04.2 first and will update 24.04.1.x branch afterward, i will let you know

OK, ready, please update ( sudo ubports-qa update ) after being with last daily version.

@DJac said:

@lduboeuf thanks. it is done.
i will reporting after usage.

After 4 hours : Clearly better. even with whatsnews.
After 24 hours : the probleme seems solved. thanks @lduboeuf !

I had a crash 3 times yesterday ( teleport and/or messaging-app)... i'm testing on 24.04.2 first and will update 24.04.1.x branch afterward, i will let you know

@CiberSheep said:

I can't remember, but it is still possible to define new kinds of accounts to be included in the Accounts in the system (adding to nextCloud, etc)?

It should yes, i think UBsync do that, but seems confined:
https://open-store.io/app/ubsync

If anyone reading here and is on daily 24.04.1.x; please test:

sudo ubports-qa install 24.04-1.x_-_PR_lomiri-keyboard_248

If you are on a limited partition device, i recommend doing this before:
sudo mount -t tmpfs none /var/cache/apt
sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/apt/lists

For 24.04.2.x:
sudo ubports-qa install 24.04-2.x_-_PR_lomiri-keyboard_247

We noticed that having several keyboard layout make the crash happen more frequently, also it seems related to the predictive engine ( word suggestions ) , of course it has to be installed in the long run to make sure it doesn"t make any regression at least.

@DJac said:

I try to re-install the 24.04-1.2.
pearaps it is a bad installation...
the problem persist. And my 2nd device have the same problem despit a clean installation (erasing user data).
which device model for the 2nd try ?

( i do have UTC+1 too), no issues, ( P3a utnext )

Humm it used to work on 20.04 ?. On 24.04.2 it is broken too but there is a WIP In Lomiri OnlineAccount, don't know for 24.04.1.x

@slowcyclist said:

@gpatel-fr I also have a Radicale server and UBPorts agenda syncs well with it (both ways) as long as I do not reboot the phone after connecting to the caldav server (i.e. creating the remote caldav account). On subsequent boots, calendars no longer sync; I need to delete the remote caldav account on the phone and recreate it for syncing to work again. It could just be a problem with storing the password (I find it somewhat surprising that once it's created, it's not possible to change the remote account password, AFAICT), but I have not investigated it more than that. And, yes, it's a pain...

@WillemHexspoor said:

@arubislander said:
24.04-2.x

I'm referring to 24.04-1.x

indeed, i don't see the annoncement in forum or on Telegram news channel, but we can see the blog post:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-2-and-20-04-ota-12-release-3987

said:

Hello,

With the next calendar-app release coming, a bunch of new strings are waiting to be translated, thanks for looking into it:

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/lomiri/lomiri-calendar-app/

Lionel

oops forgot to mention the forum post about it: ( arf can't paste the link here), look into category OS->Call for testing: calendar-app)

@DJac hmm i think it is device specific, in the past there were the same issue on abother one

@DJac said in Erreur on the hour : UTC ?:

hello
since I switch to UT24.04, I have an error on the hour indicate on the device interface : he give me 1h less. I have to go to the parameter menu > date & hour... and it comme back to the good time (without other manip).
It appends 'sometimes' : i don't see the paterne.
I suppose it is a probleme with the UTC (I am +1).

On which device ?.
I thought it was fixed, but apparently not

@Charly said in Poor sound quality in phonecalls:

@Kjetil

Hello,
I also have the feeling that the call quality is not good. What you say would explain that.

I have a fairly modern mobile phone, a Volla X23.

I've been testing VoLTE for a while now. As expected, the voice quality is better. Unfortunately, Volte uses a lot of battery.

Weird i've heard the contrary ( at least when idle but can't remember the device )

Greetings
Charly

said in unstable keyboard:

said in unstable keyboard:

@DJac said in unstable keyboard:

Since i switch on 24.04 (stable).
in my daily usadge, i see that the keyboard is 'unstable' (he popout sometimes). it appends when i switch between letters/numbers, but not anytime.
Is it a provisory probleme ? : i read that it woold be better with qt6 (? - i don't understand the details of that)

It happens more frequently for me since 24.04, was rare on 20.04, frequent on 16.04, but it tends to happen less with the current build. This is something related to the prediction engine ( the thing that give some suggestions when typing ), i've tried to dig it a bit, but i'm afraid it is too low level for me, and giving the fact that it is random, very hard to tackle.

For the record...: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1244

oh, maybe found something:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-keyboard/-/merge_requests/243

said in unstable keyboard:

@DJac said in unstable keyboard:

Since i switch on 24.04 (stable).
in my daily usadge, i see that the keyboard is 'unstable' (he popout sometimes). it appends when i switch between letters/numbers, but not anytime.
Is it a provisory probleme ? : i read that it woold be better with qt6 (? - i don't understand the details of that)

It happens more frequently for me since 24.04, was rare on 20.04, frequent on 16.04, but it tends to happen less with the current build. This is something related to the prediction engine ( the thing that give some suggestions when typing ), i've tried to dig it a bit, but i'm afraid it is too low level for me, and giving the fact that it is random, very hard to tackle.

For the record...: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1244

@DJac said in unstable keyboard:

Since i switch on 24.04 (stable).
in my daily usadge, i see that the keyboard is 'unstable' (he popout sometimes). it appends when i switch between letters/numbers, but not anytime.
Is it a provisory probleme ? : i read that it woold be better with qt6 (? - i don't understand the details of that)

It happens more frequently for me since 24.04, was rare on 20.04, frequent on 16.04, but it tends to happen less with the current build. This is something related to the prediction engine ( the thing that give some suggestions when typing ), i've tried to dig it a bit, but i'm afraid it is too low level for me, and giving the fact that it is random, very hard to tackle.

@projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app:

@lduboeuf said in Call for testing: calendar-app:

@projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app:

@lduboeuf So unfortunately, calendar sync is still broken. The calendar that was syncing (connection to Nextcloud via generic caldav instead of built-in Nextcloud integration) is no longer syncing. Only thing I see in Evolution logs is something about i_cal_time_compare < 0 failed.

I turned the Nextcloud integration itself back on for Calendar, and that synced fine... But I don't know if it will sync more later.

Sorry, i don't understand, you mean it works or not ? Please also precise on which OS version are you .
The sync can be sometimes unstable ( and it always has been). It is sometimes needed to recreate all accounts ( remove them all, reboot, recreate them)

Stable 1.2, and the accounts were previously already cleared and removed from Evolution. Re-re-(re?)-creating the accounts shouldn't be necessary, I would hope.

What I mean is that the Generic CalDAV Account seemed to stop syncing. But when I re-enabled the Nextcloud Account, that synced fine. I have two Online Accounts set up on the phone. Both point to my Nextcloud instance. Just one is the "proper" Nextcloud Online Account and the other is Generic CalDAV.

Yes, there are reports where sometimes it happens and we don't know what is happening. Only by removing the account, then rebooting, then re-creating it fixed the issue. The new backend is more stable regarding that, but not here yet.

Also, before release, there is a need for translations update :
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12008/calendar-app-call-for-translations