Google’s newest Messages tweak is ideal to 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, because of its help for the most recent RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, similar to end-to-end encryption, supply receipts, and the power to simply share high-resolution photos and movies with family and friends. Whereas it nonetheless has some method to go to meet up with different messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, Google has made important progress on the app not too long ago 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 operate. All these options promise so as to add enhanced performance to Google Messages, making texting way more gratifying and extra consistent with 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 can make scrolling via all these memes your pals have despatched you a lot simpler, by including the power to swipe through all the media shared in a dialog simply.

Swipe via all of the memes you’ve got 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 lets you simply swipe via, react to, and reply to all of the completely different media shared in a gaggle chat or dialog. At present, in Google Messages, while you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you possibly can solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, slightly than any photos which have been beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media characteristic will allow you to view all the pictures despatched in a dialog while not having to again out of the present picture you are taking a look at and spending time scrolling up or all the way down to discover a completely different one. As a substitute, while 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 screen, you will even have the power to touch upon a person picture 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 gaggle chat by going to its chat particulars and choosing Photos. There, you will see a historical past of all the pictures shared in a gaggle chat, just like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this may occasionally seem to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and think about loads of media each day, it is going to make scrolling via all of them a lot much less of a problem. In lots of the group chats I’ve with family and friends, a lot of photos (principally memes) are typically despatched forwards and backwards each day, and for those who’re out of the loop for a day, it may be laborious to catch up. With this Google Messages characteristic, as soon as applied, that may now not be a difficulty.

This characteristic continues 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 an enormous improve this yr. Hopefully, lots of the options we have noticed in improvement over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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