Google’s latest Messages tweak is perfect for 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 newest RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, reminiscent of end-to-end encryption, supply receipts, and the power to simply share high-resolution pictures and movies with family and friends. Whereas it nonetheless has some solution to go to meet up with different messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp, Google has made important progress on the app just 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 rather more pleasurable and extra in keeping with 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 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 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 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. Presently, in Google Messages, while you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you possibly can solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, somewhat than any pictures 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 completely different one. As a substitute, while you open a picture, by swiping left, you may see all the brand new pictures despatched, and by swiping proper, you possibly can view the older ones. On the backside of the display, you may 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 bunch chat by going to its chat particulars and choosing Pictures. There, you may see a historical past of all the pictures shared in a bunch chat, much like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this may increasingly look like a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and examine a number of media each day, it’ll make scrolling by means 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 pictures (largely memes) are typically despatched forwards and backwards on daily basis, and if you happen to’re out of the loop for a day, it may be onerous to catch up. With this Google Messages function, as soon as carried out, that can not be a difficulty.

This function remains to be in growth, 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 a large 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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