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 reputation lately, due to its assist for the newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, corresponding 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 strategy to go to meet up with different messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, Google has made vital progress on the app not too long ago to draw extra customers.

Up 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 way more fulfilling 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 is able to make scrolling by way of 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 by way 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 means that you can simply swipe by way of, react to, and reply to all of the totally different media shared in a gaggle chat or dialog. At present, in Google Messages, while you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you may solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, somewhat than any photos which were beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media function will allow you to view all the pictures despatched in a dialog with no need 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 totally 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 may view the older ones. On the backside of the display, 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 function 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 deciding on Photos. There, you will see a historical past of all the pictures shared in a gaggle chat, much like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this will seem to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and look at a whole lot of media each day, it’ll make scrolling by way of all of them a lot much less of a problem. In most of the group chats I’ve with family and friends, a lot of photos (principally memes) are usually despatched backwards and forwards day by day, and if you happen to’re out of the loop for a day, it may be laborious to catch up. With this Google Messages function, as soon as applied, that can now not be a difficulty.

This function remains to be in growth, so it could 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 an enormous 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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