Google Messages ought to quickly be getting a welcome improve: the power to say different customers in group chats and ping them. Much like the @point out format popularized by Twitter and now present in different messaging packages like WhatsApp or Telegram, the function is a fast and simple approach to attract the eye of a selected particular person in what may very well be a busy group chat.
A primary have a look at this new point out function has been shared by Android Authority, which dug by means of the most recent beta model of Google Messages, v20250511, to allow mentions and check out the brand new operate. It really works a lot because it does in different messaging packages — you enter a “@” image adopted by the title of the particular person you wish to point out, and an autocomplete will present you choices of members in a present group chat to make typing simpler and quicker.
Once you’ve despatched a message with a point out in it, the recipient will see their title highlighted. Presumably, as soon as the function is absolutely enabled, recipients will even get a notification that they’ve been talked about in a bunch chat, though Android Authority notes that the notification doesn’t operate proper now within the beta model.
In addition to mentions, there are different new options anticipated to return to Messages quickly too, like the power to ship hyperlinks or QR codes to ask new customers to a bunch chat, and the power to snooze notifications for numerous increments of time. With the latest addition of an unsend operate within the type of the “Delete for everybody” choice, Messages is getting a complete bunch of latest updates to maintain it in keeping with fashionable person expectations for a messaging app.
It’s not but identified when the mentions function will end up in beta and be rolled out to all Messages customers, because it hasn’t been formally introduced by Google but.