Latest Google Messages news

Google Messages app gets more Material You design tweaks

Google has updated the account switcher in the Google Messages app with Material You design and Dynamic Colour feature, reports 9To5Google. The latest design change is available in the newly-released beta version of the app. The account switching panel, as the name suggests, allows you to switch between different Google accounts that you’ve added to […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 months ago

Google is bringing Reading Mode and more features to Android phones, tablets

Google has announced a bunch of new features for Android smartphones and tablets. It also unveiled a few features for Wear OS-based smartwatches. All these features will soon come to Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. Some of these features include a system-wide Reading Mode, improved Google Cast, sharing Digital Car Keys, new collage styles […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
4 months ago

Google Messages will soon let you react to messages with any emoji

Emojis are a fun way to react to someone’s message without typing those sentences. You can send a thumbs-up to appreciate something or send an open-mouth emoji to react to something shocking. As of now, Google Messages allows you to only use seven emojis: thumbs up/down, smiling face with heart-eyes, face with tears of joy, […]

By Sagar Naresh
4 months ago

RCS group chats in Google Messages to soon get end-to-end encryption

The Google Messages app has been offering end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for one-on-one chats that are carried over RCS (Rich Communication Services) for the past two years. However, the same security isn’t available for group chats. Google had announced that E2EE will be available in RCS group chats “later this year,” but there’s no update on […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
5 months ago

Google Messages to get new delivered and read indicators soon

According to new reports, Google is testing some new features that are available to only a very limited set of users. After pushing new icons and previewing other features, Google Messages is testing out new icons for the delivered and read indicators. If you use the RCS-enabled Google Messages app, then you should know that […]

By Sagar Naresh
5 months ago

Google Message now lets you react to a message from an iPhone

Ever since Apple introduced iMessage, the messaging between Android and iOS hasn’t been smooth. However, Google has recently been making efforts to make messaging between Android and iOS easier. Earlier this year, Google addressed an issue with the Messages app where Tapbacks from an iPhone weren’t shown as reactions. Instead, they were delivered as separate […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

You can now reply to a specific message in Google Messages via RCS

Google is trying really hard to make RCS, an iMessage alternative for Android users, mainstream. It has added plenty of RCS-related features to the Google Messages app so far to make the service more convenient to use and to bring RCS in line with other popular messaging apps in terms of features. In its latest […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
6 months ago

A bug in this popular app is draining your Samsung phone’s battery

Samsung recently made the Google Messages app the default messaging app for its flagship phones in the United States. In other markets, it continues to push its own native Messages app as the default option. However, a lot of people choose to use the Google Messages app on their devices. If you’re one of them, […]

By Adnan Farooqui
11 months ago

Google Messages is bringing loads of new features to Galaxy phones

Last year, Samsung swapped out its own Messages app from Galaxy smartphones in favor of Google Messages in a few regions. However, Google’s messaging app wasn’t as feature-rich as Samsung’s. Now, the internet search giant is adding loads of new features that improve group chats, better message organization, and messaging with iPhone users. Google has […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Samsung is finally making Google Messages the default SMS app for flagship buyers in the USA

The Galaxy S22 series ships with Android 12 and One UI 4.1, and although Samsung talked a bit about the latest software at Galaxy Unpacked, some minor details were left out. Or one was, at least. Namely that the Galaxy S22 series ships with Google Messages as the default messaging app in the United States. […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Google Messages can now properly display iMessage reactions

For the foreseeable future, Android users will forever be the “green bubble people” for people with iPhones. A full iMessage port for Android remains a distant dream, but it is now possible to react to individual iMessage texts, as prophesized by an earlier report. 9to5Google has now confirmed that message reactions sent by an Android user […]

By Anil Ganti
1 year ago

Your Samsung smartphone could soon display iMessage reactions properly

Despite being a feature-rich messaging app, Samsung Messages is no longer the default SMS app for many newly-released Galaxy smartphones (running One UI 3.1 or newer out of the box). Instead, these devices come with Google Messages as their default SMS client. The app is now finally getting a useful feature that isn’t available on […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
1 year ago

Google Messages could soon learn to remind you to respond to texts

Google Messages currently offers the option to manually set a reminder for responding to texts.

By Abhijeet Mishra
2 years ago

Google Messages to bring RCS integration for Samsung’s continuity feature

Although Samsung’s Messages app features RCS (Rich Communication Services) integration, Google brought its own Messages app to Samsung smartphones. The app even features RCS and a One UI-like design, and it debuted with the Galaxy S21 earlier this year. Now, it has been revealed that Google could bring RCS integration for Samsung’s Continuity feature. According to […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
2 years ago

The new Google Messages feature Samsung Messages should copy right away

Google Messages is getting an excellent new feature to help users declutter their SMS inbox, one that we think Samsung should copy for its own Messages app as soon as possible. Google has officially announced some new Google Messages functionality for users in India, and one of those involves the option to automatically delete one-time […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
2 years ago