Goodbye

Hit customize notifications>Define Notification Actions>auto close quick reply. Turnnit off and it will keep the window open to keep sending messages

Yes, this issue of automatically closing is very annoying. Especially as we are sometimes holding a text conversation. I have to reopen the darned app every time the person replies!

Below didn't work for me. When I choose who to send a message to from my "contacts", after I send the message, Textra closes and returns me to my contact list. Hate that.

I am glad that there is a setting that controls this but this is a problem. This is in no way expected behavior... I dont even know what a quick reply is and I don't want to have to learn stuff just to be able to use your offering.

Same here!

You can solve this issue. Textra only closes when you directly reply using a notification. By default Textra opens a "Quick Reply with Keyboard" - this method produces a floating reply window that disappears when your message is sent.

To fix this. Open Textra, open Settings, choose Customize Notifications. At the top of this settings page is Action - press the action below (it will either say "Quick Reply with Keyboard" or "Quick Reply no Keyboard"). Change this option to "Full App" - from now on clicking a Textra notification will directly open the full application and it hitting send on a message will return you to either the message thread you replied to or the full list of all ongoing messages.