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 lately, because of its help for the newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, comparable 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 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 far more satisfying and extra in step 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 all these memes your pals have despatched you a lot simpler, by including the flexibility to swipe through all the media shared in a dialog simply.

Swipe by 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 by, react to, and reply to all of the totally different media shared in a gaggle chat or dialog. At the moment, in Google Messages, once you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you may solely view the photographs 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 photographs 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 totally 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 may view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you may even have the flexibility to touch upon a person photograph 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 Photographs. There, you may see a historical past of all the photographs shared in a gaggle chat, much 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 examine lots of media every day, it should make scrolling by all of them a lot much less of a trouble. In lots of the group chats I’ve with family and friends, numerous photos (largely memes) are usually despatched forwards and backwards daily, and if you happen to’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 can now not be a problem.

This characteristic continues to be in growth, so it could take one other couple of months earlier than Google rolls it out to all customers, however it 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 a large improve this yr. Hopefully, lots of the options we have noticed in growth over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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