While third-party messaging applications hold a significant market share, Google Messages, a pre-installed application on Android devices, offers a surprisingly robust suite of functionalities. This ...

Google Messages has changed more in the last year than in the previous five combined. Encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android is rolling out, real-time location sharing through Find Hub is replacing ...

It looks like Google Messages is finally fixing one of its most baffling ommissions by allowing users to forward multiple messages at a time.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Google's been a big proponent of RCS, the standard that modernizes text messaging with features like high-quality media, typing ...

Google Messages has been working on a new animation for adding messages to your chats. Rather than rising straight from the bottom, this change has messages expanding from the corners. Do the ...

Open Google Messages → profile icon → Messages settings → RCS chats → turn off “RCS chats.” Wait a full 5 minutes (not 30 seconds — the deregistration needs time to propagate to Google’s servers).

Google has started rolling out a rather big overhaul of the gallery UI in the Messages app. Several things have changed for a completely different look. Those changes are now rolling out to users.

Google Messages is rolling out a new utility option, “Tap to draft,” which gives you a choice to review Smart Reply. Instead of sending a Smart Reply immediately after tapping, it moves the message to ...