Since we all love encryption and sending messages, there’s big news to know about in the world of Google Messages. After first rolling out encryption to group chats in the beta version of Google Messages, folks on stable are apparently now seeing that same upgrade.
The current build seeing this new feature is messages.android_20230329_00_RC01.phone_dynamic, according to Mishaal Rahman. If on that build, feel free to try and get all of the friends you know who use RCS and Google Messages and try to send them messages. To know that it is encrypted, you will see this lock icon 
next to the timestamp and also this send button 
.
I wish I could tell you that I have tested it and that it works, but like many of you, I’m on the Google Messages beta which should have received this feature some time ago. Also, the entire world around me messages in Telegram and not through the ancient method known as text messaging.
Of course, you have to have RCS in order for this to work as well, as it is an RCS feature and not just a Google Messages feature. That further complicates the situation or possibly limits who you can even take advantage of it with. RCS sounds neat! Don’t get me wrong! But Google took way too long to roll this out and everyone I know was convinced to use other platforms.
Hey, Google Messages users, let me know if your group chats in RCS now have encryption. I sure hope they do.
Google Play Link: Google Messages
Google Messages appears to be rolling out end-to-end encryption support for group RCS chats for users on the latest stable release (https://t.co/ppIrKgqFRp_20230329_00_RC01.phone_dynamic).
H/T @SeeAreEff
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) April 19, 2023
Didn’t even notice as no one I know uses RCS, they all use a fruit based product UGH. My wife and close family have all started using Signal
Don’t use the word stable and Google messages in the same sentence lol. It’s always hiccups with Google messages often I have to resend a messages because the first try instantly fails , delivery is sometimes late , one instance we had user that just couldn’t get chat features to work no matter work .I’ve seen these issues across different networks and devices which leads me to believe it’s Google messages at blame here .
Still hoping that Messages for Web gets the same functionality as the app. Been a long time…. ????
About time. ALL messaging services should be fully end-to-end encrypted no matter who the company or platform is. Private conversations should be private.
PS- What is up with that odd build number format? Whatever happened to simply version 4.5332 or whatever?
They should have done this from the start.