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 Companies) options, comparable to end-to-end encryption, supply receipts, and the power to simply share high-resolution photographs and movies with family and friends. Whereas it nonetheless has some option to go to meet up with different messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, Google has made vital progress on the app just 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 far more pleasant 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 can make scrolling by means 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 means 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 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. At the moment, in Google Messages, once you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you’ll be able to solely view the photographs despatched in that single message, quite than any photographs which have been beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media characteristic will allow you to view all the photographs 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 right down to discover a completely different one. As an alternative, once you open a picture, by swiping left, you will see all the brand new photographs despatched, and by swiping proper, you’ll be able to view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you will even have the power to touch upon a person photograph or react to it with an emoji. You possibly can see the characteristic 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 deciding on Photographs. There, you will see a historical past of all the photographs shared in a bunch chat, just like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this will likely appear to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and examine a whole lot of media day by day, it’ll 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, numerous photographs (principally memes) are usually despatched backwards and forwards every single day, and when you’re out of the loop for a day, it may be exhausting to catch up. With this Google Messages characteristic, as soon as carried out, that can 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, 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 ready for an enormous improve this yr. Hopefully, most of the options we have noticed in improvement over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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