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Go SMS Pro, a third-party SMS app with more than a 100 million downloads, has been dinged for exposing private user data with poor security practices.
Google's RCS-powered Chat is now available in the Messages app globally. The company plans to add end-to-end encryption shortly.
Google Messages is finally gaining the ability to schedule text messages. The feature is expected to become widely available in the coming weeks.
RCS is going to modernize Android's Messaging app, here are all the countries and carriers currently supported.
An APK teardown has revealed that Google is planning to add a new feature to its Messages app, allowing it to detect and delete OTPs after 24 hours automatically.
Google's Messages app is getting better at being a modern messaging app. With reactions, voice notes, and a built-in video-chat app, all it needs are users.
You can now easily deregister your phone number from Google's RCS Chat service using an online form when switching to a non-supported phone.
The Android Messages app doesn't yet support Android 11's new chat bubbles, but Google says an update will be coming out to fix that within the next few weeks.
The Google Messages app will finally add end-to-end encryption for RCS messages this year. In addition to end-to-end encryption, the app is also expected to soon gain Google Fi integration.
Google has started testing emoji reactions for RCS chats in its Messages app. There is currently no word on when the feature will begin rolling out to users.
Google's Messages app makes it faster to send photos with chat. Powered by RCS, chat is Google's way of turning Messages into an IM app, and it's getting better by the day.
Google is finally continuing its global RCS rollout. Reports of the new messaging standard hitting countries outside the initial few supported have begun to emerge.
In the latest beta of Google's Messages app, there is a new image markup tool that allows you to doodle and add text to your photos before sending them.
Google Messages is a solid texting app, but it's not perfect. Here's what some of our AC forum members would like to see added to make it even better!
A teardown of the latest Messages beta app suggests Google could soon roll out the ability to send “reaction texts,” just like iMessage.
Google Messages users may soon be able to react to messages using emojis, just like on iMessage.
Google is disabling RCS chat for users who enabled it using a hack discovered in late 2019. While it only works in a handful of countries at the moment, the firm continues to work on bringing the feature worldwide to all regions as soon as it can.
Google is expanding its autofill service on Android to include SMS-based 2FA, making it convenient for users to enter one-time passwords received in the messages app.
Facebook Messenger has had a floating notification for a long time, and now it looks like Google Messages will soon offer its own take on this feature.