Through the years, Google Messages has picked up options that elevate its standing to a deserving Apple Messages substitute. The most recent addition, permitting you to completely unsend messages, is now reaching a breadth of Android customers, saving them the ache of awkwardness of wrongly despatched texts.
After previewing the “Delete for everybody” characteristic in its Messages app, Google is releasing it to folks past the beta testing tribe. As anticipated, the performance permits senders of the message to delete it for all events in a peer-to-peer or a bunch chat and replaces older performance the place deleted messages would nonetheless seem for others.
The Delete for everybody performance was noticed by a Redditor with a username seeareeff (through 9to5Google), however they didn’t specify which model of Google Messages it’s essential to get it working. We couldn’t activate it at our finish regardless of updating the app to the most recent model, suggesting this is likely to be a server-side change.
Notably, these modifications will solely apply to messages and chats over RCS — a comparatively fashionable internet-based messaging protocol that Google hopes, however has bother budging Apple, to interchange conventional SMS. Which means everybody within the chat will need to have RCS enabled, which is anyway obligatory if you wish to get pleasure from options like message reactions or typing indicators, to benefit from the performance. You need to additionally replace Google Messages to the most recent model, else deleted messages should seem for some of us.
Apart from chats with others who use Google Messages, the cross-platform nature of RCS signifies that it ought to, in idea, additionally work seamlessly with Apple Messages. It is because Apple just lately adopted RCS together with its personal iMessage protocol for the Messages app. One requisite, nevertheless, is the opposite folks will need to have up to date their iPhone or iPad to iOS 18. It’s nonetheless not fool-proof, although, since RCS could require organising for some folks (from Google Messages’ settings) and is probably not supported by each telecom service.
With Google Messages now adopted because the de-facto messaging app for Android, we will count on Google to push for aggressive standardization.