Chat themes are one of the best Google Messages features we've gotten all year. Here are 10 of the best ones I've made so far ...

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Google Messages has replaced text-based indicators with icons for read receipts. Here's how to tell the difference between ...

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We saw that Google Messages was working on adding group chat invite links last year. That feature still isn’t generally available, but we’ve managed to get invite links working in a recent beta ...

Open Google Messages → profile icon → Messages settings → RCS chats → turn off “RCS chats.” Wait a full 5 minutes (not 30 seconds — the deregistration needs time to propagate to Google’s servers).

Google Chat finally gets the ability to schedule messages up to 120 days in advance. There’s a new Draft shortcut, which opens a dedicated area to manage all scheduled messages. The scheduling feature ...

If you're the kind of person who tends to have multiple conversations at once, hopping between your messaging apps and whatever else you're doing, you know how tedious it can be to switch between them ...

Google on October 14, 2026 announced a new set of AI-powered Android scam defenses in an Android Security blog post, led by ...