Thankfully, Google is finally paying attention to this issue. Messages recently introduced a redesigned context menu that ...

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Google is likely restoring the RCS message edit history feature, a tool for transparency that was removed during a 2025 app redesign.

Google Messages shows check marks and other symbols on your texts to hint at what's happening behind the scenes. Here's what each of these means.

Google Messages is preparing new RCS labels for contacts. The app will soon display an RCS tag next to the names and numbers of contacts using RCS. In addition to the RCS label, Google Messages is ...

Since Google's push to RCS standards in 2019, Android's Messages app by Google offers great in-house features. After you've opened Google Messages and enabled RCS chats, you'll find typing indicators, ...

Google Messages is testing a long-awaited trash folder feature, enabling users to easily recover accidentally deleted texts. This significant update, found in the latest beta, will eliminate the ...

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 is gaining a new “Unsubscribe” feature to combat spam and other unwanted SMS texts or RCS chats from business senders. “Unsubscribe” is for businesses that send “unwanted messages in ...