Google’s newest Messages tweak is ideal in your wildest group chats

Google Messages is the native textual content messaging app on Android OS, and it has been steadily rising in recognition lately, because of its assist for the newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, akin to end-to-end encryption, supply receipts, and the flexibility to simply share high-resolution pictures and movies with family and friends. Whereas it nonetheless has some option to go to meet up with different messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, Google has made important progress on the app lately to draw extra customers.

Previously few months, Google has been testing many new options for Google Messages in its beta department, together with delicate content material warnings, real-time location sharing, customized group chat icons, a new mentioning feature, and a ” delete for everyone” message perform. All these options promise so as to add enhanced performance to Google Messages, making texting far more gratifying and extra according to the expertise customers have on different messaging apps.

Now, Google has been discovered to be engaged on one other new Google Messages characteristic for group chats, which is able to make scrolling by all these memes your mates have despatched you a lot simpler, by including the flexibility to swipe through all the media shared in a dialog simply.

Swipe by all of the memes you have been despatched in seconds

In Android Authority‘s newest APK teardown of Google Messages, it found one other new characteristic being developed for the app that means that you can simply swipe by, react to, and reply to all of the totally different media shared in a bunch chat or dialog. At present, in Google Messages, if you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you’ll be able to solely view the photographs despatched in that single message, somewhat than any pictures which were beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media characteristic will allow you to view all the photographs despatched in a dialog without having to again out of the present picture you are taking a look at and spending time scrolling up or right down to discover a totally different one. As a substitute, if you open a picture, by swiping left, you may see all the brand new pictures despatched, and by swiping proper, you’ll be able to view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you may even have the flexibility to touch upon a person photograph or react to it with an emoji. You’ll be able to see the characteristic in motion within the video above.

Moreover, Google is including the choice to view all media despatched in a bunch chat by going to its chat particulars and deciding on Photographs. There, you may see a historical past of all the photographs shared in a bunch chat, much like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this will likely seem to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and consider loads of media each day, it should make scrolling by all of them a lot much less of a trouble. In most of the group chats I’ve with family and friends, a lot of pictures (largely memes) are usually despatched forwards and backwards every single day, and when you’re out of the loop for a day, it may be exhausting to catch up. With this Google Messages characteristic, as soon as applied, that may not be a difficulty.

This characteristic remains to be in growth, so it might take one other couple of months earlier than Google rolls it out to all customers, but it surely stays an thrilling addition nonetheless. Contemplating all the opposite options being developed for Google Messages, Android’s native textual content messaging app is about for a large improve this yr. Hopefully, most of the options we have noticed in growth over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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