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 in recent times, due to its assist for the most recent RCS (Wealthy Communication Providers) options, similar 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 technique 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.

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 operate. All these options promise so as to add enhanced performance to Google Messages, making texting far 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 characteristic for group chats, which is able to make scrolling via all these memes your mates have despatched you a lot simpler, by including the power to swipe through all the media shared in a dialog simply.

Swipe via 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 via, react to, and reply to all of the completely different media shared in a bunch chat or dialog. At the moment, in Google Messages, whenever you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you possibly can solely view the pictures despatched in that single message, reasonably than any photographs 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 taking a look at and spending time scrolling up or right down to discover a completely different one. As a substitute, whenever you open a picture, by swiping left, you will see all the brand new photographs despatched, and by swiping proper, you possibly can view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you will 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 bunch chat by going to its chat particulars and choosing Photos. There, you will 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 will likely appear to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and look at a whole lot of media every day, it’s going to make scrolling via 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 photographs (largely memes) are usually despatched backwards and forwards on daily basis, and for those who’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 now not be a difficulty.

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, 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 yr. Hopefully, most of the options we have noticed in growth over the previous few months will launch quickly.

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