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

Google Messages is the native textual content messaging app on Android OS, and it has been steadily rising in reputation in recent times, due to its help for the newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, corresponding to end-to-end encryption, supply receipts, and the flexibility to simply share high-resolution photos and movies with family and friends. Whereas it nonetheless has some solution 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.

Prior to now 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 rather more satisfying 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 function for group chats, which can make scrolling by means of all these memes your folks have despatched you a lot simpler, by including the flexibility to swipe through all the media shared in a dialog simply.

Swipe by means of 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 function being developed for the app that lets you simply swipe by means of, react to, and reply to all of the completely different media shared in a bunch chat or dialog. Presently, in Google Messages, whenever you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you possibly can solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, somewhat than any photos which have been beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media function will allow you to view all the pictures despatched in a dialog without having to again out of the present picture you are and spending time scrolling up or all the way down to discover a completely different one. As a substitute, whenever you open a picture, by swiping left, you will see all the brand new photos despatched, and by swiping proper, you possibly can view the older ones. On the backside of the display, you will even have the flexibility to touch upon a person picture or react to it with an emoji. You may see the function 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 choosing Photos. There, you will see a historical past of all the pictures shared in a bunch chat, much like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this may increasingly appear to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and think about a whole lot of media every day, it should make scrolling by means of 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 photos (principally memes) are usually despatched forwards and backwards on daily basis, and for those who’re out of the loop for a day, it may be arduous to catch up. With this Google Messages function, as soon as applied, that may not be a problem.

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

Associated

Google Messages’ latest feature is here to save you from yourself

Google is lastly starting to let customers delete messages they’ve despatched.