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 ...

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 has started rolling out the Material 3 Expressive redesign for its Messages app on the beta channel. The beta release brings design changes for the app’s homepage, chat interface, settings menu ...

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 has rolled out the Material 3 Expressive redesign to the Google Messages chat screen, adding curved corners and refreshed layouts. The update marks another step in Google’s push to modernize ...

Google Messages is introducing a new Trash feature that stores deleted chats for 30 days before permanently deleting them. Users can now restore or permanently delete individual or all trashed ...