Google appears to be on a mission proper now to make its Google Messages app a extra highly effective competitor to Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s WhatsApp. The corporate has added a number of new options, together with the addition of animations with emoji results and the choice to make inexperienced bubbles blue.
These options are good, however convincing individuals to improve to among the best Android telephones requires apps with each substance and magnificence. And a few screenshots posted on X by user Jhow_kira recommend an enormous change to Google Messages that could possibly be an enormous time saver for Android cellphone customers.
The publication particulars the subsequent choice to edit messages after they’ve been despatched, one thing potential in each WhatsApp and iMessage. Apparently, some Android customers (together with this X consumer) are testing the brand new function proper now.
Enhancing a despatched message includes long-pressing the message you wish to change after which tapping the pencil icon that seems within the prime toolbar. Whereas the unique message can nonetheless be accessed from the overflow menu, this new addition to Google Messages will enable individuals to shortly right a typo or change a element with out having to ship a wholly new message. Think about the cumulative time saved by not needing extra messages to make clear a unique time or spell somebody’s title appropriately.
Messages will probably be open for enhancing as much as quarter-hour after being despatched and each the sender and recipient will need to have the message enhancing function for this to work.
Sadly, it is unclear precisely when this function will probably be launched to Google Messages, however provided that iMessage has had the identical performance since iOS 16 in 2022, hopefully Google will not cease there.
After all, there’s the small matter that Google I/O is happening right this moment, Might 14, which may doubtlessly present a couple of extra particulars about this new function. The occasion will start at 1pm ET / 10am PT / 6pm BST and you’ll watch it alongside Google’s dwell stream of the I/O keynote. And naturally, we’ll be unpacking one of the best new options after the bulletins, so here is a have a look at all of the issues we count on to listen to at right this moment’s occasion.
- Android may lastly get a desktop mode, powered by ChromeOS
- Google I/O 2024 dwell weblog: all of the information about Gemini AI and Android 15 for the time being
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