Can’t press the send icon with longer messages through the Xbox app since the update?

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Any chance you can share a screenshot so I can take a look?

From the below it appears that the default is text and if you want to send voice you have to select the microphone.

Send messages to friends

To send messages to one of your friends through Xbox One:

Sign in to Xbox Live.

On your Xbox One Wireless Controller, press the Xbox button.

Go to the Friends hub and select Friends online.

Highlight the friend's gamertag, and then press the A button on your controller.

Select Send and then select Message to send a text message, or select the microphone icon to send a voice message.

Enter or record your message.

When finished, select Send.

Hello Jerico,

Thank you for posting here on the Xbox forums. Are you able to send messages using a different device like through Xbox.com, or the Xbox app? If you are having issues sending messages from all devices, you should check out this link here :

Why can’t I send messages from my Xbox One or the Xbox app?

Hope this helps!

There were two apps in the google app store, an xbox app and an xbox beta app. the beta one crashes when selecting messages or it just says something went wrong and doesn't display any messages. I tried using the other xbox app and
that seems to be sending messages ok (using a pretty old Samsung Galaxy 2 tablet so I can understand having issues there). On the desktop pc I can send messages on xbox.com but I can't tell if they have gone through because my message history on xbox.com isn't
updating so I can't see what I sent, I have to go onto the app to see if the message was sent. the windows 10 app works fine for everything apart from the messages, when I click on the message icon the app crashes.

Xbox app is always broken with messages. Ms constantly disabled the notifications message feature with new versions. You have to re enable them. And I can’t message anyone since the newest update. It says privacy settings are not set to allow it. Go to Xbox.com
and change them. Last week it was fine. Then a new update. Totally broke messages. A couple days later a new update. Fixed messaging. But now I can’t. I’ve never changed privacy settings. And I just looked and there is nothing to do with messaging. I’ve reinstalled
the app. Please fix yer app ms!!!!