Google introduced a number of new options for its Messages app final week, together with the power to snooze notifications and delete textual content messages for everybody in RCS chats. These capabilities are actually rolling out extensively to steady customers. Because the names counsel, the previous permits you to snooze notifications for incoming messages. In the meantime, the latter deletes messages for everybody concerned within the chat, much like the present possibility on WhatsApp. Nonetheless, these on older variations of the Google Messages app should still have the ability to see the deleted texts.
New Options in Google Messages
The Delete for everybody possibility in Google Messages has been in improvement for a few months. It was first noticed within the app’s code again in February and the tech large launched it for beta customers within the subsequent month. It has now been made extensively obtainable within the Google Messages app.
Devices 360 employees members can confirm the arrival of the brand new options in Google Messages
Lengthy urgent on a message after which tapping the trash button now brings two choices — Delete for everybody and Delete for me. The previous removes it from each the sender and receiver’s machine.
Nonetheless, it’s restricted to RCS chats and non-RCS messages can’t be deleted for all customers. Additional, messages should still be seen on gadgets operating an older model of the Google Messages app. That is helped by one other new characteristic for the chat web page which exhibits the contacts who’ve RCS enabled on their cellphone.
In the meantime, Google has additionally launched the Snooze notifications characteristic on the Messages app. Lengthy urgent on a dialog from the app’s residence web page brings up a brand new window which shows the totally different time durations. Customers can select to snooze notifications for the dialog for one hour, eight hours, 24 hours, and All the time.
The dialog will then be greyed out, with the chosen time or date showing beneath it. Google says different members is not going to be made conscious that you have snoozed notifications for the chat. Customers can repeat the steps to undo snooze.
As a part of the Google Messages replace for June 2025, the tech large has additionally introduced personalisation for RCS group chats the place customers can set a customized icon and distinctive identify for it.
