In addition to introducing a handful of Messages features, Google is rolling out new icons for the SMS/RCS app, as well as Phone and Contacts. Update 11/20: As with the mobile version, the Phone app ...

Phone's Messages app is many Apple users' go-to texting platform, but the app can actually do a lot more cool things you ...

The brand new Google Messages notification icon has finally started popping up for users. This comes three months after Google announced it. As some of you may recall, Google changed the Messages icon ...

It's a frustrating little detail, but if you’ve ever set a custom picture for a group chat in Google Messages, you know it’s not easy to go back. Once you add a photo, you can only replace it with ...

Google Messages beta now allows snoozing chats for 1, 8, or 24 hours. A snooze icon also appears when a chat is long-pressed in the inbox. You can set Messages to notify you when someone @mentions you ...

Google Messages could soon allow users to set up custom icons for RCS group chats. We’ve manually enabled the feature in the latest Messages beta release to give you an early look. Google is getting ...

A bug in the new Google Messages beta, version v20250811, is causing users to see two or even three app icons in their app drawer. The bug affects only beta users. All icons launch the same app, so ...

The interface for typing and sending messages in a chat app has been on my mind lately given Google’s addition of Magic Compose (too crowded) and the redesign Apple is doing in iOS 17 (too simple).

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