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 recognition lately, due to its assist for the newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Providers) 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 important progress on the app lately to draw extra customers.

Previously 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 pleasant 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 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’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 permits you to simply swipe by way of, react to, and reply to all of the completely different media shared in a gaggle chat or dialog. At present, in Google Messages, once you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you’ll be able to solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, reasonably than any photos which were beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media characteristic will allow you to view all the pictures despatched in a dialog with no need 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, once you open a picture, by swiping left, you may see all the brand new photos despatched, and by swiping proper, you’ll be able to view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you may even have the power to touch upon a person picture or react to it with an emoji. You may 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 Pictures. There, you may 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 will look like a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and look at a variety of media every day, it’s going to make scrolling by way 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 day by day, and for those who’re out of the loop for a day, it may be arduous to catch up. With this Google Messages characteristic, as soon as carried out, that may 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, 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 ready for a large improve this 12 months. Hopefully, most of the options we have noticed in improvement over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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