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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Messages is testing an official chat that lets you ask about new features and how they work, instead of one-way broadcasts.

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.