Google wants to update its Messages app in the coming weeks with new features that will improve RCS and even SMS chats. Users will thus be able to reply to individual messages in the thread, but also set reminders and much more. AND Apple of course RCS still ignores and will continue to ignore.
Google informed about the upcoming news on its website blog. Here he mentions exactly those 10 novelties that we can slowly look forward to, but at the same time he digs into Apple by highlighting his adoption of RCS. Users Androidu will see correct reactions from iPhone users, but otherwise it will still be a completely different (worse) user experience. Of course, iPhone users are the ones who are affected, but the company does not want to listen in this regard and instead recommends that everyone buy iPhone.
10 new things coming to Google News
- Answer with a swipe
- Reaction to SMS messages from iPhones
- Voice messages with transcription to text (only on Pixel 6 and above, Galaxy S22 and Fold 4)
- Reminders right in the news
- Watch YouTube videos directly in conversations without leaving the app
- Intelligent design of important content (addresses, numbers, etc.)
- In supported languages, Messages will recognize events spoken in a video call
- In supported countries, it will be possible to chat with companies found in Search or Maps
- Messages will also work on Chromebooks and smartwatches
- App support in flight mode on United Airlines
What's new in the Messages app from Google
The application also received a new icon to better reflect today's modern environment and to have the same look as many other Google products. Applications should also get the same look Phone or Contact, when the trio of these apps will make close use of the Material You skin.
Very well, that apple "doesn't want to listen"! And Google can do that... AND iphone are constantly .. constantly ... constantly selling 😀
As long as Google keeps renaming, completely changing, canceling its "chatting" app after several years, it can talk to Apple all it wants.
Google will sometimes cancel it again when people get used to it like many of its applications
I don't know ANYONE who not only uses them but doesn't even know them...
How do you not know anyone? Most phones have messages from the factory. Anything with a clean system or for example Xiaomi. Furthermore, RCS is not only a matter for Google, but today almost every SMS application has it, from Samsung, etc. .. so it doesn't matter at all if Google cancels or renames its app
at the same time, it is not a revolution, RCS has been here for years... Everything is just Apple.. same story as USB C