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6 Fresh New Features Arrive in Android Feature Drop for June

Kellen June 10, 2025 2

In addition to Android 16 arriving and Google giving Pixel owners a Feature Drop, they've also given all Android owners their own June Feature Drop. While not the largest in history, there are at least 6 items you should know about. The June Android Feature...

Following RCS Landing on the iPhone, More Than a Billion RCS Messages Sent Every Day in US

Kellen May 13, 2025 3

As a part of today's "The Android Show" announcements, Google shared that there are now more than a billion RCS messages sent every day in just the US. That's a massive number that was certainly boosted by Apple's adoption of RCS at the end of last year with...

Google Messages Will Let You “Delete for Everyone” in a Group Now

Kellen May 9, 2025 5

Sending a message with an error to the wrong chat or with enough misspellings that you'd be embarrassed can often be fixed in many messaging platforms thanks to a "delete for everyone" feature. Telegram has this for sure, and it now appears that a similar...

Group Chats Getting Upgrades on Google Messages

Tim April 2, 2025 3

According to spotted code inside the latest Google Messages beta build, your group chats should be getting a few upgrades soon. In the future, it looks as though Google will allow for the sharing of group chats via links and QR codes, making getting friends...

New RCS Universal Profile 3.0 Adds End-to-End Encryption, Apple and Google Both Included

Kellen March 14, 2025 9

From the moment that RCS went live in iOS 18 and the world of iPhone owners joined the party that we've had over here on Android, there has been one missing piece to make this a truly great cross-platform messaging experience. I'm talking about end-to-end...

Google: We’re Working On That ‘Receiving Media’ Issue in Messages

Tim March 11, 2025 1

Google Messages users are apparently experiencing an issue when receiving media, something Google has been actively working to fix. Google took to its support site to say that it's hoping users will see a noticeable difference now, after updates have been...

Android Feature Drop Adds 4 New Features in Chrome, Messages, Auto, Find My for Everyone

Kellen March 4, 2025 3

In the world of Android, the weeks don't get that much bigger than this one. Not only are we getting a Google Pixel Feature Drop that adds a bunch of goodies to the Pixel line-up of devices, Google is also sharing 4 new features coming to Android that any...

Google Messages Now Lets You RCS Message Yourself and That’s Amazing News

Kellen February 14, 2025 10

Not that I've ever tried this before, but Google Messages has apparently (only now) added the ability to send yourself an RCS message and it may just be one of the greatest features ever. Self-texting in high quality is here! The latest version of Google...