Following Gmail for some users and Photos, Google Messages is beginning to roll out a Material 3 Expressive redesign of just the chat interface.
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Google Messages is rolling out a tweaked “New chat” page to let you immediately check which contacts have RCS enabled.
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After a years-long wait, Apple finally added RCS messaging support to the iPhone last year, and that’s resulted in over 1 billion RCS messages being sent every day in the US alone between both Android and iOS devices.
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In a bid to improve messaging security, Google has announced that the Key Verifier function will be coming to Android. This function will ensure that contact credentials are legitimate.
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Google Messages for Android is getting the ability to delete a chat message for everyone in a group RCS conversation.
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Google is beginning to roll out the ability to personalize group chats in Messages for Android with custom icons.
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Google Messages is gaining a new “Unsubscribe” feature to combat spam and other unwanted SMS texts or RCS chats from business senders.
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Following last year’s announcement, Google Messages is rolling out Sensitive Content Warnings that blur nude images on Android.
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Google Messages looks to be planning a sizable update to group chats, with the highlight being an ability to “join this group with this unique link or QR code.”
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After spending 2024 cycling through different looks before reverting to the original for some reason, Google Messages has widely rolled out a redesign of the text field.
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One of the downsides of RCS messaging for a while was a lack of support for end-to-end encryption but, now, the GSMA has announced that the latest update to RCS will add the long-awaited security layer, and both Google and Apple will support it.
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Google Messages has addressed slowdowns, failures, and other issues with receiving media in Android’s RCS app.
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Alongside the Pixel (Feature) Drop today, Google is announcing the latest Android features for Spring/March 2025, with Find My Device ‘People’ sharing and Android Auto games leading the way.
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Back in December, Google Messages rolled out the latest text field redesign and a new version makes it ever so slightly bigger.
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The latest Scam Detection features for Google Messages and the Phone by Google app are coming to Pixel with a March update.
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In the past week, Google Messages users have noticed that RCS read receipts are not working properly.
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Google Messages has redesigned the UI for taking and sending pictures that permanently merges a live camera viewfinder with your gallery. As part of this, Google is also rolling out the ability to send pictures and videos in “Original quality.”
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Back in June, the GSMA Association responsible for RCS finalized the latest standard with features like the ability to delete a sent message, and Google Messages is readying support.
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In a confusing change, Samsung Messages once again supports RCS messaging on the Galaxy S25 series, despite Samsung having gone all-in on Google Messages a while back.
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Still in testing, Google Messages has made a small color tweak to the upcoming redesign of RCS read receipts that makes the indicator bolder.
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A small bug with the latest beta version of Google Messages for Android removes the Magic Compose button for some users. This is not the first time this has happened.
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Google Messages has been working on dual SIM RCS since the start of this year, and support is now more widely rolling out in beta.
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Late last year, Google widely rolled out “profile sharing” wherein you set what name and contact photo other people see in the Messages app. This resulted in people seeing different profile images, but Google Messages is now letting you override that with “Set as chat picture.”
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The biggest moment for Google Messages in 2024 was when the iPhone gained RCS support with iOS 18 in September. In terms of new features, there were some highlights but the biggest one — a redesign of the text field — was stuck in limbo. There are quite a few big additions in the pipeline.
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