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 in recent times, because of its help for the most recent RCS (Wealthy Communication Companies) options, comparable to 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 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 rather more gratifying and extra according to 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 is able to make scrolling by 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 by 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 function being developed for the app that means that you can simply swipe by, react to, and reply to all of the completely different media shared in a gaggle chat or dialog. At present, in Google Messages, whenever you open a picture somebody has despatched you, you may solely view the photographs despatched in that single message, moderately than any pictures which were beforehand despatched.

This new swipe-through media function 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 all the way down to discover a completely different one. As an alternative, whenever you open a picture, by swiping left, you may see all the brand new pictures despatched, and by swiping proper, you may view the older ones. On the backside of the display screen, you may even have the power to touch upon a person photograph 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 gaggle chat by going to its chat particulars and deciding on Photographs. There, you may see a historical past of all the photographs shared in a gaggle chat, just like how you are able to do so on WhatsApp and iMessage.

Whereas this will seem to be a minor addition to Google Messages, for individuals who ship and consider plenty of media each day, it would make scrolling by 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 backwards and forwards each day, and in the event you’re out of the loop for a day, it may be exhausting to catch up. With this Google Messages function, as soon as carried out, that may not be a problem.

This function continues to be in growth, so it might 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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