People with Samsung phones can you help me work something out please?

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On a Samsung phone you can be in the photo gallery and decide to send a photo to someone so you can press that share button (which looks like 3 dots in a triangle with two lines on two sides) and then select WhatsApp and then some suggested contacts come up.

Are these suggested contacts random? Is there anyway one of them could be someone that's not been contacted for a long time? Obviously this is what DH is claiming - "it's just some random professional contact that he worked with over a year ago, no idea why that comes up"

I'm skeptical obviously!! I have an iPhone though and don't know my way around a Samsung too well.

So just to recap - it's the very specific was of starting off in the phone gallery and selecting a picture to share and then WhatsApp that I'm asking about...

@crustycrab that should say I've just tested that

Just tried mine and it came up with 3 contacts I've been messaging the most recently.

First 3 are frequently contacted whatsapp. 4th is occasionally contacted text message. But one of the only people who contacts me through text, so frequent for texts.

Not even most frequently contacted, but seems to be most RECENTLY contacted on my samsung

Hmm yes it wasn't that screen. There were no photos of the people. I think it must have been the phone throwing up some random suggestions rather than WhatsApp and he was telling the truth (about that part).

Mine looks the same as Silenttype. The first 3 are my most recent WhatsApp contacts but the 4th is a random person I last contacted via DM on Twitter months ago.

OP Was the ex work colleague the 4th person, ie the one on the right? Or one of the others?

this is what I get if I want to share a pic, It gives me 3 option of WhatsApp (all frequently used) and the 4th option is a normal text message contact. Again the most used out of my text message contacts.

if I click to share with WhatsApp it's the same as pp a list of most frequent and recent.

Echoing everyone else, the share button will automatically suggest the people you (he) contacts most & the means of sharing it

Echoing everyone else, the share button will automatically suggest the people you (he) contacts most & the means of sharing it

It's not on mine. It suggest exh. Who is text last. But not most frequently.

Then a few work colleagues, my dp and my dad. I don't speak to my dad. I had cause to answer a text 6 months ago and that was it. Then my brother who I rarely speak to as well.

My best friend isnt on that list, even though we fb message all day everyday, some texts but not as frequently.

It's not on mine. It suggest exh. Who is text last. But not most frequently.

My first 3 are always the people who I've been in touch with most frequently..the more steady contacts & the forth is often someone who I'm in touch with now and again.

The logic behind it is to make it easier for sharing by suggesting who it's most likely to be sent to.

The logic behind it is to make it easier for sharing by suggesting who it's most likely to be sent to.

Yes I get that.

But mine isnt most frequent. Exh gets 1 text a week about me picking my son up.

I text, call and message about 15 people far more frequently.

I cant answer why mine is different to yours. It just is.

I have a Samsung S9, I tested this out this morning when you first posted, I selected a picture, pressed the share button and got a row of people, the first 3 were WhatsApp contacts who I do message the most, amd the 4th was a email contact I'd literally just sent to, so i didn't respond as my test came out the same as most others. I have however just read the updates on here and tried again, this time, the first 2 were email contacts, one of which was to the principle of my daughter's old dance school which she left last year and I certainly haven't emailed since, the 3rd suggestion was my most used WhatsApp contact. I'd tread very carefully therefore on using this as evidence.

My 4 person horizontal line has:

1. Whatsapp - group with my besties - we talk constantly all day and send pictures
2. Instagram - Someone i messaged on there last week
3. Whatsapp - my sister who i talk to daily
4. Instagram - my cousin who i haven't messaged on there for ages

I just did it and it comes up with 3 frequently contacted then a list of recently contacted then everyone else. If she was in the frequently contacted or recently contacted, he has contacted her recently. If she was in the everyone else section, he either hasn't contacted her recently or at all

I'm fairly certain that it was just a random contact that came up. The screen didn't look like any of the screenshots on here - there were no WhatsApp icons or pics of people. And his response to me about who she is was calm and genuine.

Unlike the response to me having a lean over and trying to see who he was messaging before that. So he's defo up to no good and thought I'd cracked who it was with but clearly not.

OP, why do you think he is seeing someone else?

You had a couple of threads about his phone.

Is there anything else, happening?

I only ask because my exh was convinced I was having an affair. I wasnt. It ended up splitting us up.

He became obsessed. It was awful.

At one point he was convinced someone I worked with was texting me at 3am. I even opened my phone in front of him, in the middle of the night and showed him all the latest texts on my phone. Nothing had come through. No notifications or anything. But he was sure.

@Ilikethisone I don't think there's anything physical going on but he's DEFINITELY messaging someone pretty much constantly throughout the day and lying to me about it. I'm not a crazy/jealous wife and have, until now, been very trusting of him. There's another thread about his phone usage that I started and the general consensus is he's being shifty.

I noticed it even more last week. Even when sitting next to me - but he'll hold his phone at an angle so I can't see. If I move around him it's so fucking obvious that he'll move his phone so that I still can't see. But then "casually" let me see the screen every now and again when he's on something innocent.

When he's holding it in a way that I can't see the screen I'll pop into my own WhatsApp and sure enough - he's on WhatsApp!

I understand that.

I think because of my ow experience I always wonder if it's chicken or egg situation. But that is coloured by my own view of my own experience.

Not RTFT. When I click share I get all the share options plus a line of my most frequently contacted come up. When I click on whatsapp specifically it's ordered by most frequently contacted in a section at the top then recent chats underneath.

If I share a photo from gallery via whatsapp, I get:

A header bar saying "frequently contacted". Below this are 3 regular contacts. They are not necessarily my most recent contacts.

Below this is another header bar saying "recent contacts". This has the people/groups I've been in touch with most recently in order of descending 'recency'.

If I don't click into the whatsapp icon, i get 4 sharing options. Seems to be a bit random but does reflect recent/regular contacts. I've currently got 3 whatsapp and 1 text message contact showing.